Mary If you go to the View Menu, then choose Event Definitions, then highlight that event, and choose Edit, you can see what custom editing you've used for that event.
Is that what you're looking for? Mary On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mary LeClerc <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks Wendy. > > Yours is the only response I had. > > Yes, I'm aware of the sentence override option and I have used it. But I'd > still like to be able to "lock in" my edits. Just looking for Legacy to > indicate I have customized that event so that I don't change it quite so > easily in the future. > > Thanks again for the reply. > Mary > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Wendy Howard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Did you get any replies to this, Mary? I don't recall seeing any, and >> kept your post so I could reply when I had the opportunity (having been >> away a few days this week). >> >> My main thought with reading your query was to wonder if you had seen >> that you can edit a sentence definition for a one-time use, ie for that >> one instance of an event for that one person? When you have an event >> open, look for the "Sentence Override" tab, alongside the Notes one. >> >> You may find that useful in some of your situations. >> >> Hope this helps. :-) >> >> Kind Regards, >> Wendy >> >> >> Mary LeClerc said the following on 25/06/2013 10:54 a.m.: >> > This may be available and I just don't realize it. >> > I can spend what seems like hours decided on just the perfect >> > formatting for the sentence wording on various events. I get it just >> > the way I want it. Then a new circumstance prompts me to change it >> > before I've thought about the ramifications of that change on the >> > records I've already entered. Right now, it's so easy to change and I >> > sometimes forget the logic I put into the formatting I select. Worse >> > yet, I sometimes go long periods of time without working on my files >> > and I'm wary of coming back and deciding to "reset" the formatting >> > without remembering why I made changes. >> > Is there a safeguard for my absent mindedness..a way to "lock in" the >> > changes I've made so that I have to really think about the change? >> > Or do I just need to pay better attention? >> > Thanks, >> > Mary >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > Mary LeClerc > [email protected] > My Blog: http://quiltinginoz.blogspot.com/ > My Photos: http://tinyurl.com/3aylx7 > > "Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any > different.” ~ Oprah Winfrey > > "The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. > No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have > an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before." > Dieter Uchtdorf > > > > > 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
