Ron,

You said >> Most of the complaints could be solved easily and quickly if
folks would spend a little time using the help files.

True enough.

In this day and age of instant information it seems a lot of people have
lost interest in reading help files and would rather have someone hand
them the answer. Having said that, if the help system worked like Google
there might be more people willing to use it.


Larry Lee
[email protected]



On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Ron Bernier <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Sherry/Support <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You can turn off the automatic sorting.  In Options > Customize,
>> select your choices in option 2.2
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Sherry
>> Technical Support
>> Legacy Family Tree
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gene Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I have just noticed some extremely bad behavior in Legacy 8.
>> >
>> > In V7, I would select to sort events by date and the events would first
>> sort by date then by the order in which events were entered in the event of
>> duplicate dates.  This was and is the desired effect.
>> >
>> > In V8, however, it first sorts by date, as it should.  Then, unasked,
>> it sorts alphabetically in the case of identical dates.  If I wanted it to
>> sort alphabetical I would ask it to do so.  This is absolutely not
>> acceptable behavior.
>> >
>> > I have not found anything in the help files on how to stop this
>> behavior.Time for a problem report.
>> > --
>> >
>> > Gene Young
>>
>
> It would appear that once again the programmers wasted their time creating
> a help file and a user manual.  So many people complaining to the list that
> this or that feature isn't working correctly or they don't like how the
> feature is working.  Most of the complaints could be solved easily and
> quickly if folks would spend a little time using the help files.
>
> Ron Bernier
> Woonsocket, RI
>
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