Though an interesting discussion - this has always been possible with any WIN product. Just resize the windows and drag to where you want. I often run with 2 or even 3 windows at once! I understand the new WIN7 does the snap to 1/2 thing - but it has never been that tough. Love the 22" Samsung LDC - give plenty of space! :-)
Keith -- Find-A-Grave "County Keeper" for Schuylkill County, PA Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: geosc...@comcast.net On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Jim Walton <walton.geneal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Windows 7 users. > > There is a feature in Windows 7 that makes it even simpler. Just open > the two windows you want side by side, say Firefox (Or IE) and Legacy. > Then take the top bar of one of the windows and drag it to the left, > off the screen. When you release the mouse, the window will pop to > fill the left half of the screen. Do the same with the other window > dragging it to the right side and viola, split screens with two > different programs. > > If helps if you put your cursor as far left as possible before > dragging left and as far right as possible before dragging right. Just > makes it happen quicker without having to drag so far. > > Unfortunately it won't work with overlayed windows within Legacy. For > example, if you drag a source window to the left, it will fill half > the screen, but you can't drag the underlying family screen to the > right. This is a Windows issue, not a Legacy issue. > > But, there is a work around. > > If you start with the family window and drag it right, then open, say, > the event window and drag it left, you can see both windows at the > same time. You can only edit in the event window, however. You can > open additional windows from the left window (in our example), say the > source window, and keep dragging them left and work on the topmost > window while still seeing the family window on the right. You still > have to close all the windows individually just as you normally do. > > (A close and save all would sure be nice...) > > How do you get back from this split screen view? Click on the Maximize > button in the upper right (looks like a square) to make the window > full screen, then click on the Restore Down button (same button, but > this time it looks like two pieces of paper on top of each other). You > are now back to where you started. > > Sounds a little complicated, but once you've done it a time or two > it's pretty easy. > -- > Jim Walton > "...probe the past carefully and report it as it was, > not as I wish it were" From Evidence Explained > by Elizabeth Shown Mills > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
