It may also be that the screen from which the merge is to be made is not in focus - try clicking on that screen --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307
"Jenny M Benson" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 15/02/2013 19:26, Sentz wrote: >> What I want to do is get the info from about 6 individuals in family >> file B moved and merged into the records for the same individuals in my >> primary family file A. >> >> Is it possible to use the manual merge to merge individual records from >> two family files. I tried this and it didn't work. Kept getting a >> message that I couldn't select the same person for the right hand side >> of the screen. I had split screen up and both of the individual record >> names highlighted. >> >> If there isn't a way to do the manual merge for the situation above, is >> there any other way besides tagging them and separating them from Fam >> File B then merging them into Fam File A as explained in "Help" Merge >> best practices? > >Did you definitely have the 2 different files open? That sounds like a >message you might get if you were looking at 2 views of the same file. > >-- >Jenny M Benson 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
