Thank you for posting the latest, I am very anxious for it's release, when you say the 15th, do you mean March 15, this coming Friday?
Connie Spindel wrote: > I just received this from Legacy this morning and thought I would share with > you... Makes waiting until the 15th even MORE difficult! > Connie > > What's New in the Deluxe Edition of > Legacy 4.0 > > NEW! � Alternate Names in the Name List > Alternate name (AKAs) are now shown in the Name List. This lets you see all > the variations of a person�s name making it easier to find the correct > individual. > > NEW! � New Chronology View and Report > Quickly see a person and all the events surround his/her life, including > vitals, events, notes, children, marriages, marriage events, marriage notes. > Different types of events can be color coded for easy identification. You > can also produce a nice printed report containing a built-in timeline of a > person�s life events. > > NEW! � Event Sentences > Each event type now has its own sentence structure that is used when > displaying the event information in reports. Of course, you can change the > sentences around to any way you want them. > > NEW! � User ID# in the Name List > You can now show your own file numbering system sorted in the Name List. > > NEW! � Master Location List Sorting > You can now sort all your locations without including any leading > prepositions, such as �of,� �near,� �at,� �from,� �close to,� �off,� etc. > Now �of Bergen, NJ� will sort with �Bergen, NJ�. This new option is on the > Sort Location List. > > NEW! � Location Notes > You can now add your own notes to master location entries. Record > information, stories and historical background on the places your ancestors > came from. This greatly enhances the capability of attaching pictures to > your master locations, a feature available in version 3.0. > > NEW! � New Picture Center > In the past you had to go to an individual or marriage and then assign each > picture one-at-a-time, selecting the location and filename each time. Now, > with the new Picture Center, you can view a list of your pictures and a list > of individuals side-by-side and make assignments with the click of a button. > You can even assign a picture to more than one person at a time. Just > highlight all the people you want to link a picture to and click the Assign > button. It was never easier or faster to add pictures to your family > members. > > NEW! � Event Report > Legacy has a great new report showing individuals and the selected events > you want to include. > > NEW! � Advanced Set Living > You can now have Legacy intelligently run through your family file and set > the Living tag to NO for all the individuals that are certainly long-since > departed. By analyzing surrounding information and watching the generation > numbers, Legacy will set the proper value for all those ancestors without > any birth or death dates. > > NEW! � User Defined Internet search URLs > Now you can add your own favorite Internet search sites right into Legacy > and search for anyone in your file with the click of a button. Save groups > of your hard-found search sites for quick retrieval. > > NEW! � Global Spell Checking > You can now have Legacy run through your entire family file and check the > spelling on any note type field. You can even stop and resume at will. > > NEW! � Bearing and Distance Calculator > You can now use those strange latitude and longitude values for something > useful. This new calculator will tell you the distance in miles (or > kilometers) between any two points on earth. It will also tell you which > direction to travel. You can also convert decimal bearing values to the > needed degrees, minutes and seconds. It even ties into the Master Location > List where you can select any two cities (with lat. and long. values) and > quickly figure out how far they are apart and in which direction. > > NEW! � Ancestor Coloring Option > Ancestor and Descendant type reports and many screens can now show colors > associated with one of the four grandparents lines. There is also an option > to color males and females differently on reports. > > NEW! � To Do Clipboard > You can now memorize To Do items for quick playback on other individuals. > Often an item applies to more than one person. The new clipboard feature > saves you a lot of typing� > > NEW! � Quick Copy to Source Clipboard > Now, while looking at the Assigned Sources screen, you can quickly copy one > or more source citations right to the Source Clipboard. This lets you > continue the citation of an existing source faster than ever. > > NEW! � Color Schemes > You can now define and save your own favorite color schemes in Legacy. You > now have more control than ever, including panel colors, data box colors, > background colors, 3D borders and more. > > NEW! � Customizable Toolbar > You can now choose which toolbar buttons to include at the top of Legacy. > Select from nearly 40 different options that are only a click away. Place > your most-used options right on the toolbar, for the full width of your > screen! > > NEW! � Show Events on the Family View and Name List > Now you can select one or more specific events to be shown as part of the > customizable fields on the Family View and Name List. For example, you can > now have a person�s occupation shown. > > NEW! � Location and Source Verification Tags > You can now mark master locations and master sources with a Verified tag to > indicate that you have checked them as being valid. For example, you may > have a city listed under two different counties in your master location list > and verified that they are both correct according to the timeframe they were > each used. Marking them as �Verified� will remind you not to combine them > into one location in the future. > > NEW! � More Tags > We have added six more tag numbers for a total of nine. This lets you > create many more groups of individuals and marriages. > > NEW! � Embedded Text Formatting > You can now insert codes within your notes and other fields to add bolding, > underlining, italicizing and superscripting when printing reports and > producing web pages. > > NEW! � Move Non-Sources from Master Source List to Notes > Only true source information belongs in the Master Source List. Oftentimes, > when you receive information from other people, you find sources containing > things that really belong in the Notes fields. This helpful feature > automatically moves non-source entries into the notes for the individuals > they belong to. > > NEW! � Move Non-Locations from Master Location List to Notes > Trying to keep your Master Location List cleaned up is a full-time job. > When you import information from other people, the location fields often > contain information that does not belong there. Often, this information is > valuable and worth keeping. Using this handy feature, you can quickly move > the information from the Location List to the Notes fields where it belongs. > > NEW! � Descendant Chart Format > New format option for the Descendant Chart. You can now create descendant > charts with leaders indenting each generation. 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