Sherry, Excel might have problems before 1901 but the *free* OpenOffice does not - which must go to show something :-)
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 3:50 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Order The Index view is another way of looking at the Name List. Like the Name LIst, it can only be sorted by #, Given and Surname. You can save the Index Report (click on the Print button in the Name List) as csv but.... Excel doesn't know what to do with dates prior to 1901 so you won't get a good sort by dates. GenViewer, an add-on program which we sell, does sort by column. You might want to take a look at that. It's an *awesome* viewer which will read the FDB file (as well as several other genealogy file types) and allows you to do some great searches, sorts and has some basic report printing features. My favorite feature is the "self-viewing gedcom", which allows you to create a file that has a run-time of GenViewer so you can view the file on any computer without installing any programs. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Don Hendershot <donald.henders...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a new Legacy user here and am really enjoying the excellent Legacy > Support and the insightful comments from fellow users! > > Apparently, it is not possible to sort the date column on the Index Tab. > Is there a relatively quick way to get the data to display like that? If > not, can one generate a report or output a .cvs or .xls file. I've been > looking but don't see anything obvious yet. > > Thanks! > ~DonH 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
