Hi Elizabeth, > how do I put the info from this first person onto the Source > clipboard? What do I click? > >
You do what I was talking about the other day, when I posted "Another feature that I don't think has been mentioned yet in this thread, is that you can copy an existing source citation to the Source Clipboard." I went on to say... "This is useful if you're working with one document (say a birth certificate) and have the details for this in the Source Clipboard, then move onto another document and replace the details in the Source Clipboard with those details - and then find you want/need to use the first source again. "Simply go to a person where you've already used that source, open the assigned sources for that person, highlight (click on) the source you want to copy to the clipboard, then click on the "Copy Souce to Clipboard" icon, that's the bottom of the five icons in the Assigned Sources window with two pages as its picture. You'll get a warning that you're about to overwrite the existing Source Clipboard; click on the "Copy/Overwrite Existing" button and the Source Clipboard now contains the new information that you've copied from an existing citation." Hopefully you're now at a point where that makes more sense. :-) Now that you've copied the data into the Source Clipboard, it is ready to be attached to other items of data. When you have entered such an item, either click on the "Add Clipboard Source to the Current Field" icon (the blue single line), or press <Alt><2> which does the same thing. Note that you do not have to open the Source Citations window to add a source, you can do it on the fly as you enter data. Having done that, when you go to your next document or whatever, put the data into the Source Clipboard first so it's ready to use as you enter facts/events into your database. To do this, click on the "Open Source Clipboard" icon - the upwards blue arrow - or press <Alt><1>. Set up the source information, save it, and then it's ready to use. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> 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
