I apologize for having doubted you Cathy. Somehow I had missed the part about using only one tab, so I kept having problems with your solution. Steve explaind to me how to correct the problem by changing the fonts in a clear and concise manner that even I could understand. So I used his solution. Now but I know that my mistake was in using more than one tab, I can use your method and choose the font that I want. Thank-you.
I have a lot of friends to use computers, but many of them get freaked out if they have to go beyond the program to tweak it so that it will do what they think it should do without them having to be a programmer. Many of them only understand the program that they use, such as a word processor and nothing else about the computer. This is a fundamental bug that appears to have been in legacy for a long time. I wonder how many people try to use legacy and liked it, but when it came to using the notes, they discovered that their reports were not printing out the way they look on the screen, and they did not belong to this user group, so they gave up. That's unfortunate. I am somewhat computer literate, so I'm not intimidated when things do not go the way that I think they should, I just look for a solution. In the past, I have looked at many other genealogical programs, but I always came back to legacy. The ease of use, the features available, and just about everything, with the exception of the chart options, are far superior to any of the program that I have played with. You would think that the layout that you use the notes and see on the screen would be the same that you would see in the reports. I don't understand why legacy doesn't see the importance of correcting this will bug. Of course, I'm not a programmer and I know that they use access as their data base, and the notes section in access is not programmed like a word processor. Maybe this particular bug is harder to fix than many of us think it is. Still, I wonder how many people has ran into this problem, did not sign up for the user list, just got frustrated with their report, gave up, changed to another program, and went on about their business. Get my point Legacy? Overall I think your program is great, and I'd like to see everybody using it. But, I don't think that this bug is one that you should take for granted. Not that he I think you have a buggy program, because I don't. It has been my experience that most bugs that people find in your program turns out to be the person operating the program. -that includes me. However, this particular problem, I think you should give some thought too. Think about it, if you had to spend a lot of time entering a lot of data without realizing that you cannot line up things and keep them lined up in the notes when you go to print the report. Well, it can turn into a very frustrating situation to the uninitiated. Sorry Cathy, I just thought that I would take this opportunity to share my thoughts with Legacy, because I know that they read these things. Anyway, thanks again for your help. John D. Taylor III -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] fighting with columns in the event notes Hi Dave, That's the explanation - the use of spaces and one tab (use CRTL+Tab if you are typing within Legacy) in the name column and other uneven columns seems important. Two tabs together show differently on screen and printer. I emailed off list so I could sent attachments or embedded pictures showing that I had succeeded. I have a Multiple Line of Descent book of over 400 pages with many census events in it. Most are beautifully lined up. The ones I adjusted first as I was learning that multiple tabs don't work so well are a little wonky but not bad. This is with default fonts on both screen and report. Cheers, Cathy At 06:21 28/04/2005, you wrote: >I wanted to do exactly what John wants to do for a long time. I've given up. >There has been lots of discussion about this but as far as I've heard no >solution other than mono spaced fonts, but I could have just missed it. >Maybe I missed it because the solution is always revealed off-list! > >Can't you explain it Cathy on the list because you have to send attachments? >Or is there some other reason? It seems that if there is a solution to a >question on a thread the solution should be revealed on the thread. > >Or is the complete solution, > > Either cut and paste the text complete with tabs and the tabs stick OR use > > CTRL-tab. > >Or is there more? Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
