RE: [LegacyUG] Index Columns

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Mary Jo, Yes you can but it has to be set so that you can revert first. In the Index View, click on the [Options] button and select Customise Columns In the Customise Index View Columns dialog, click [Save] In the Save Layout column dialog, click an empty space, and in the name

RE: [LegacyUG] Installing (2nd) Legacy on laptop for travel

2009-07-25 Thread Mark Lang
Hi Paula, You have it in a nutshell. Download and install the exe onto the laptop and unlock using your unique serial number. Copy over your FDB data file. I wouldn't worry about the multimedia personally. It will be easier to identify which images you have placed in the database because they

RE: [LegacyUG] Can I delete the updates and upgrades

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Lang
Diane, Of course you can delete the old/uninstall the older versions setups/updates. If you have v7, this program has all the coding plus more than v5/6, and the current download of L7 will always have the current specs. The only reason to keep the old install and updates is if you want to

RE: [LegacyUG] Questions about reports

2009-05-03 Thread Mark Lang
Jeff, If you are referring to either the Ancestor and/or Descendant Reports in Reports All Reports, are you aware that there is a tab labelled Page Layout where you can adjust the paragraph indents over 6 different paragraph types. You can always click the [Reset] button to return to the

RE: [LegacyUG] Adding over 10 Children

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Lang
Whether you use the menu, keyboard or context menu, Legacy will keep adding the children you input. If you want to view children 11-13, you will have to change the family view by right-clicking in the children's panel then from the context menu select either View 3 Columns, or View Best Fit

RE: [LegacyUG] Windows Task Manager

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Lang
Momalot, In Task Manager, select Legacy, then kill the process. Do this for all processes with the Legacy name. Now try to start Legacy. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- Behalf Of momalo...@aol.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Windows Task Manager Legacy is not responding. It says so

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy freezing

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Lang
Message - From: Mark Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: 27 August, 2008 1:23 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy freezing Hello Nancy, Just curious. With Legacy closed, can you please go to your install directory, right-click the dir and select

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy freezing

2008-08-26 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Nancy, Just curious. With Legacy closed, can you please go to your install directory, right-click the dir and select from the context menu Group BY Type | Ascending Then select your Legacy, Event and Source USR files and cut and paste to folder on your desktop, then restart Legacy and see

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7 Lat/Long format

2008-06-14 Thread Mark Lang
Dede, 681234.293 is 68 deg 12 min 34 sec (the .293 is a refinement calibration for the seconds) Therefore the seconds component is actually 34.293 Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dede Holden Sent: Sunday, 15

RE: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence Structure

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Carol, For each event click the sentence override tab and create your own sentences. When you type in your own, the default structure is ignored in preference for the override. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] v7 update to 7.0.0.38

2008-05-24 Thread Mark Lang
No. I have FF as my default browser. There is just a control that is in IE7 that makes everything work. I have IE7 installed, but never use it. Cannot say anything about Opera. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[LegacyUG] No Digest

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Lang
Carol, When you signed up for LUG, on http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp, it distinctly says under the title LegacyUserGroup, there is no digest version of the list available. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 7

2008-05-04 Thread Mark Lang
Mike, I don’t believe he has. Only us Beta Testers have this privilege. I think he might be referring to the pre-release of Legacy Charting which carries the v7 numbering as well, and he is comparing this to Legacy Charting Companion v2 Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Lang
If after doing what Wendy and Richard suggest, consider the fact that maybe there is a remote possibility that there is a relationship elsewhere in your database that may connect the two individuals giving this result. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] Tab positions in Source Detail

2008-04-19 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Russ, The tabs are hard coded into the programming of Legacy and cannot be rearranged by the User. You don't say why, but can only guess that you would prefer to see the Text/Comments tab to be the active tab when you open the Source Detail? Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Robin, Open legacy, then from the File menu, select Export To then Gedcom File (Ctrl+E is quicker). At the top - Produce File for, and select gedcom 5.5. Check the options you want information to include, a lot of it deals with privatisation. At the bottom, click the [Record

RE: [LegacyUG] Family view information fields problem

2008-04-06 Thread Mark Lang
Penny, On the Family View, click the person so their Individual Information screen comes up, then to the right of the field where you have Cremated, are 3 small icons - down arrow, plus, and GeoLocation. Click the Plus sign (even if greyed out) then uncheck the option from the menu for

RE: [LegacyUG] Gedcom Export

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Lang
John, I don't think that's possible. I've often wished that was a feature, at having a load/save buttons like elsewhere in Legacy. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Magyari Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:43 PM

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem adding spouse or children

2008-02-20 Thread Mark Lang
Greg, You need to look at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpJetServPk.asp Most errors can be solved by going to http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp and looking for the error by number link, then selecting the correct error. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [LegacyUG] File extensions completed question

2008-01-30 Thread Mark Lang
These files are created by Legacy when you create a Focus Group (.FG) or a To-Do Clipboard (.TC). If you delete, and rerun these functions, Legacy will just re-generate them. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] TNG

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Lang
Jim, The other program that you may have heard of is PHPGedView (http://phpgedview.net/). Currently it is at v4.1.3 and is available for free from the same website. I have Darrin's TNG as well v5 at http://www.easygensolutions.com/tng/ and v6 at http://www.easygensolutions.com/tng6/ as I was

RE: [LegacyUG] Master location list

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Toni, Open the Master Location List that you want to import the info into then click Option Import Click Browse to Select the other file name, then check location list then click the Import Lists button. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [LegacyUG] Set Living .... IntelliMurder

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Judy, Yes that was a little pun invented on the beta test list that made its way into a release. It actually refers to Advanced Set Living, where you can intelligently murder all your ancestors beyond a specific given number of years so you can set everyone in your database as dead if

RE: [LegacyUG] Twins

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Lang
Hi Thad, Right click the children and select Children's setting, then for each select child, choose Twin from the Child Status box. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TH Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 11:44 AM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] How to suppress Source and Research notes from reports?

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Brannen, To suppress Sources, choose your report, then on the Options tab, click the [Report Options] button, click the Sources tab and deselect the first option Print source citations. On the Include tab, there is a section bottom right called Notes, deselect the Research option. I

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy and Vista

2007-08-11 Thread Mark Lang
I have been using Legacy on Vista Premium since February as well. I have Legacy (both the GR and beta) residing in the Program Files folder and have not had too many problems. As Cathy points out, Legacy does like to write to certain files, but again no problems there. My system was pre-installed

RE: [LegacyUG] Report options not responding

2007-07-27 Thread Mark Lang
I might suggest you try deleting the file(s) Descend.usr and/or DescNarr.usr then restart Legacy and try creating the report. If this does not work, perhaps a reinstall. The usr files can be located in the Legacy install directory. Kind Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [LegacyUG] Edit Sentence Definition - Marriage

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Lang
Ruth, I was able to do as you indicated. Using Legacy .133, I clicked the Marriage events icon on the Family View page and specifically created a Marriage Notes event I add info to all fields and in the Edit event sentence definition all fields, I put [FirstName] were married by [desc] on

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy usr files

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Lang
Myrna, The USR files are in the program directory that it is installed in. Mark cannot find any .usr files on my computer. I have also looked in the archives and cannot find anything that tells me where they are - just that they are. PLEASE, where are they? Myrna Have you unlocked the

RE: [LegacyUG] Printing our a report

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Lang
I tend to get into trouble when I answer this list as not all the information is in the request as is this one. I interpret this as a report from a particular generation through to the last person which may be yourself. In this case I think there is. Open the Relationship Calculator (Tools

RE: [LegacyUG] Deleting Sources from Selected Individuals

2007-05-09 Thread Mark Lang
Dan, Yep, your right, incorrectly read. Not enough coffee after just waking. Mark I believe the OP (original poster) wanted to delete the Master Source citations from only some individuals, but not all of them, and keep the original Master Source and it's citations for the other individuals

RE: [LegacyUG] Gedcom - Family Historian programme

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Lang
Caro, I have Family Historian as well and the native format for FH is the GEDCOM file. Although FH can open a gedcom, Legacy needs to import it. Open Legacy and import the FH file through File Import From Gedcom File, or simply Ctrl+Q and follow the prompts. Kind Regards, Mark

[LegacyUG] Learning how to create a web site for our data

2007-04-20 Thread Mark Lang
Not to detract from Ron's idea of a tutorial which is a good idea, I would like to point out that in the Legacy book I am currently writing, I have a whole chapter on *Creating a Web Site* which is currently at 17 pages and still going. I have written 252 pages so far and it is not complete yet,

RE: [LegacyUG] Those Little + Signs

2007-04-06 Thread Mark Lang
Hi Richard, I take it that you have checked the options Options Customise Data Format | Child List Indicators and have selected the second radio button then clicked [Save]. Kind Regards, Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Heckman Sent:

RE: [LegacyUG] exporting made more people??

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Lang
Dee, Another thought after thinking on this overnight, have you considered using Legacy's own Split Screen and looking at the List side-by-side? Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Lang Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 4:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup

RE: [LegacyUG] exporting made more people??

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Lang
Dee, Have you by any chance thought of using GenMatcher to compare the two files. I find this program great in this area, as you can even compare a Legacy FDB file and a GEDCOM file side by side. If you don't have GenMatcher, you can send me the files and I will compare them for you if you want.

RE: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Anne, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2007 1:07 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center Is there anyway to remove Produced by Legacy on

RE: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center, Ancestor Book Reports, Multiple Parents

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Lang
Rob, -Original Message- From: Susan Daily Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center, Ancestor Book Reports, Multiple Parents It doesn't work in the same Publishing Center report. I just tested it. And Susan is right, I double-checked as well and it can't be done. I should have

Legacy and Vista (RE: [LegacyUG] Publishing Center, Ancestor Book Reports, Multiple Parents)

2007-03-03 Thread Mark Lang
Rosemary, Please remember to change the Subject heading. Your RFH (Request For Help) had nothing to do with the subject title. I have Legacy working OK in Vista Home Premium, the only problem being there is no Help file while the developers convert the hlp format to something more compatible.

RE: [LegacyUG] Export/Import

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Lang
Kb - -Original Message- From: kb Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 5:05 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Export/Import Install Legacy, then simply either overwrite or delete the DATA folder and replace it with a copy of the one on my backup or distribution DVD. Do I lose any data

RE: [LegacyUG] Export/Import

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Lang
Hello Martha, Actually this very topic is going to be chapter 15 of my book that I am currently writing on Legacy. It is really easy. If you have the files copied from your PC to a CD, insert the CD into your laptop. After a while, you will get an AutoPlay dialog box that will ask you what

RE: [LegacyUG] Recording of Surnames

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Lang
Kirsten, Anne, Wouldn't it be easier to locate name variations in the Index using the Soundex Code using Tools Soundex Calculator. Once you have the soundex code, click the [Search Name List] button and you get a subset list of just names for that soundex variation. Then tag the variations. Just