I'm sorry, but I'm not catching on. For me the copy icon has only ever copied source information, not the actual event. So on the census event, you have fields for Description, Date, Place, Notes, and Sentence overrides (and maybe a couple other things). You are saying that if I right-click in say the Description filed, it will select not just the text withing that field, but the entire event??? And then I can paste the entire event into the marriage or on another person??? I'd try it out now, but I'll not be able until this evening. BTW, that would not be standard windows behavior. Standard would only copy and paste one filed at a time.
The best I came up with yesterday was to go to the source view, and highlight an event I wanted to move somewhere else. On the bottom of the source view, there is a preview of the event sentence on a gray background. Luckily, the program allows that text to be selected and thus can be copied and pasted elsewhere. The problem though, is that it doesn't carry along any sentence overrides or attached source citations or anything, it still leaves a fair amount of manual entry. What I want is to simply move an entire event with all my tweaks from one place to another. Having said this out loud, it occurs to me that perhaps if I made a copy of my file, I could then do a drag and drop between the two files. Then delete the old one and keep trucking with the new. I could keep flip flopping like this as needed. That would probably be faster than the limited copy and paste routine I've been using so far. Both of these workarounds are better than retyping everything, but still a bigger hassle than should be necessary. I am thinking that if I can drag and drop between files, it can't be too big of a deal for Legacy to allow drag and drop within the same file. If this can be done, please tell me how. Thanks, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Lionel Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > James Cook wrote: >> Is there any way to copy and paste an event? > > > I think so. I regard a census as an event. This means that for a family > I need to enter he details of the census as an event for each person. I > add the details as an event for one of them and then use the copy icon > to 'load' the clipboard. I go to each other member of the family in turn > and click 'add' for events. I then use the paste icon to copy all the > census details into their record. > > Although I've never had the occasion to use it in several fields you can > right click and select 'select all', then right click again and select > 'copy'. As a trial I 'selected all' in the 'born in' box, then copied, > opened an 'add' for an event and pasted the 'born in' entry into the > details of the event. It seems to me that cut, copy and paste work as > they normally do in Windows allowing you to copy or move stuff around. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
