If you put the AKA or nickname, or preferred name, in brackets it will be used in reports. For example, my maiden name was Janet Kay SULLIVAN, but I am known as Jan - so I have entered myself into Legacy as Given name: Janet Kay "Jan" Surname: SULLIVAN. In report options I have selected 'Use quoted names for narratives' and 'Remove Quoted given names' (Only applicable for narrative type reports, not charts although I *think* remove quoted given names works everywhere.) So a narrative sentence would read "Jan married ....." etc. but anywhere I have asked (in a sentence definition) for full name to be used, or where full names are used by default it would read "Janet Kay SULLIVAN" rather than Janet Kay "Jan" SULLIVAN". However, it is global, not specific to a particular sentence definition. Just tried it out, and if you use [Name] in your sentence definition you get Janet Kay SULLIVAN, if you use [FirstName] you get Jan. Cheers Jan
-----Original Message----- From: Robert E. Carneal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2011 13:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] AKA in sentence definition ? Also, one more thing. Suppose I don't want the first name in the sentence definiton. What if I want a person's AKA? I didn't see AKA nor nicknames in the list of possible fields. Can I select an AKA for the sentence? Thank you. Robert 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 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
