Re: [LegacyUG] Choose branch of tree

2011-04-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:06:16 +0100, Joan Kemp jk...@yahoo.com wrote: Does anyone know an easy, practical way of splitting off a branch of a tree in Legacy? Currently I export to genopro do from there, because its is so easy. But it ought to be possible to do in Legacy The easiest way I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Recently Modified

2011-04-01 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Richard, I'm sure you meant the lower right. We had a discussion awhile back and found out even when you close the window with the X in the corner it updates the date. One would think that without modifying the record the date would not change. However, pressing 'Cancel' did not change the date.

Re: [LegacyUG] Choose branch of tree

2011-04-01 Thread Robert E. Carneal
It is. Select the oldest person in that branch, go to File, and: 1 Right click. This brings up advanced tagging. This allows yhou to select who you want to break off (i.e., export). 2 Tag #3, and click descendents. 3 Brings up another window- select the number of generations. Since I usually don't

Re: [LegacyUG] Choose branch of tree

2011-04-01 Thread Bert van Kootwijk
Look in the Help. Search for Splitting and you get: Splitting Files   Splitting Family Files in Legacy by David Berdan   Most people like to keep all of their information in one family file. Legacy easily accommodates this because of its nearly unlimited capacities. However, as a file

Re: [LegacyUG] Recently Modified

2011-04-01 Thread Richard Van Wasshnova
Yes Tim. Thanks for correcting. -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com wrote: Richard, I'm sure you meant the lower right. We had a discussion awhile back and found out even when you close the window with the X in the corner it updates  the

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate Sources After Manual Merge

2011-04-01 Thread Brian/Support
The GEDCOM standard does not provide for the detailed fields used by the SourceWriter system. Because of this all sources exported from Legacy, and imported back into Legacy will be Basic Style Sources. In the outbound conversion to the GEDCOM the changes made make the linking of those sources to

Re: [LegacyUG] Duplicate Sources After Manual Merge

2011-04-01 Thread Connie Sheets
Brian, Customer Support wrote: The GEDCOM standard does not provide for the detailed fields used by the SourceWriter system. Because of this all sources exported from Legacy, and imported back into Legacy will be Basic Style Sources. In the outbound conversion to the GEDCOM the changes made

[LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Keeney
I just reinstalled Legacy on my new Win7 machine. Bold text is not showing bolded. It shows as b text /b for example. I was (almost) sure it showed as bold text on screen. I copied all of my .usr files from by install on XP. Is there another setting someplace that needs to be set? Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dave, There are so many places within Legacy where is it possible to include html settings, or use Legacy buttons, eg, the Bold Button for the note fields, that more information would be helpful - where are the lines to which you refer? How did you create them? would do for starters. There is

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Keeney
It in the Notes fields in my events. It's all be done over the past several years but I've used both the BOLD button, and/or the CNTL-B. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.ukwrote: Dave, There are so many places within Legacy where is it possible to include

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dave, I cannot think of a way one can globally change the html to embedded coding. Given that the problem seems to be related to the file transfer, what method did you use to transfer the .fdb file? At present it seems to me that copying them across in a different way may prevent the problem

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:49:33 +0100, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I cannot think of a way one can globally change the html to embedded coding. Given that the problem seems to be related to the file transfer, what method did you use to transfer the .fdb file? At present it seems to

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Moe Crosby
I found a similar problem. In Child List Indicators I selected to Indicate direct-line children in lists (Bold) It does not appear in bold. The Indicate Preferred Children in Child List (*) is working. I just installed on Win7 64 Bit. To be honest, I don't know if the Bold option was working

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread my genealogy email
Moe, first you need to set the preferences for this list to send in plain text please so we can delete all the links at the end of the messages without deleting your original post. second: after you changed the indicators did you remember to save the options? After you set that then you also

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread my genealogy email
You can do a search and replace for all of the notes where you think the occurrences are. Russ -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold On Sat, 2 Apr 2011

[LegacyUG] PDFs won't launch since OS upgrade

2011-04-01 Thread Moe Crosby
I just installed Windows 7 64-Bit Pro on my system. I'm running Legacy Version 7.5.0.67 I have PDF files attached to individuals in their Picture Gallery. When I try to open the file I get an error (no error code) There is currently no default media player set up for your computer. I have

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Moe Crosby
Russ. I just posted a message before reading this response. I will wait to see if I posted the last one incorrectly (I think I did). Moe --- On Fri, 4/1/11, my genealogy email rgstrongge...@gmail.com wrote: From: my genealogy email rgstrongge...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs won't launch since OS upgrade

2011-04-01 Thread my genealogy email
Moe, It probably has something to do with the Windows UAC (User Access Control) that is not allowing it to open the Adobe Reader. You may have to temporarily turn it off and then see if Legacy will open the program. If it will then you will have to do a Google search on how to make Legacy a

Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Keeney
It was a simple copy. I just added a new drive for win7. And I still had the old drive available. It was nothing more than copy from f: to c: On Apr 1, 2011 4:50 PM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Dave, I cannot think of a way one can globally change the html to embedded