Aha! When I found the 'help' button (finally!) I found the 'repeat' button right next to it! I do think that is a strange place for those buttons but now that I know they are they, I am going to use them a LOT :-) Kathy
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are entering the same information several times over, you just > need *click on Repeat* to have the same information in any field as was > entered in that field for the previous record*.* > > How do you 'click on repeat'? I will try Sherry's suggestions now too. > Thank you. I'm working from a FGS that a cousin sent me and most of the > places are the same but as another writer mentioned, sometimes you have to > type quite a bit before coming to the one you want. I have some Swedish > places too and I have to type the intl characters which is even more of a > pain. > > We are so spoiled, haha! Thanks everyone. Kathy > * * > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 26/05/2011 23:21, Kathy Meyer wrote: >> > It seems to me I read that when you are making new entries, there is >> some >> > quick way to access the last 5 or 10 places that were used. I know I >> can >> > get the master location list and it will be set at the very last one >> that >> > was used but I thought there was a quicker way. Maybe I'm wrong... >> >> If you are entering the same information several times over, you just >> need click on Repeat to have the same information in any field as was >> entered in that field for the previous record. >> >> Also if you just start to type the beginning of a location entry the >> field will autofill if you have used that location or a similar one. If >> the right one doesn't pop up first, just keep typing until it does. >> >> -- >> Jenny M Benson >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> >> Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and >> on our blog >> (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> >> ). >> To unsubscribe: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> >> >> >> > > > -- > Kathy Meyer > > STRESS: when your gut says "NO WAY" and your mouth says "NO PROBLEM" > > "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you > have never before done." > --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 > > Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different > results. ~ Albert Einstein > > -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says "NO WAY" and your mouth says "NO PROBLEM" "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
