Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

I had not used Name List (or Marriage List) because of inflexibility (not just its lack of sorting of any of the display fields). I would like various subsets of names. Because of that, (in Name List – not Marriage List) I did not take notice of the Optional Fields ‘Born’ and ‘Died’ are

Re: [LegacyUG] Preview for Chronology Comparison Report

Glad it worked II Henry From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Linda Greethurst Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 6:50 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Preview for Chronology Comparison Report

Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

If you are going to be using Excel, the easiest work around for the date issue is to change the date format in Legacy at Options - Customise 5.1 to -mm-dd and then make the Date columns in Excel Number or Text rather than Date. You still have problems with the prefixes. Cathy

Re: [LegacyUG] Preview for Chronology Comparison Report

Henry - Thanks - that did it! Another prime example of why to keep your program updated. I had missed this update from 3 days ago. Such a simple solution. I'm a happy camper( er, genealogist), again. On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Henry T. Peterson Jr. wrote: > *Linda* >

Re: [LegacyUG] Preview for Chronology Comparison Report

Linda What Build are you using. The latest build is 9.0.0.188 Regards Henry From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Linda Greethurst Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 4:55 PM To: Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software

[LegacyUG] Preview for Chronology Comparison Report

I have read Legacy 9 Unlocked and Geoff just clicks on the Preview button and sees it on screen. He flips to view it often. This look great and so I am trying it on a couple of my own individuals. My problem: I click on Preview button and it automatically goes to my printer. I tried the Reset

Re: [LegacyUG] making id number visible in the edit screen in Legacy v9

You do not say which id number you want but all the numbers you can add to a person are always visible in the edit screen, they are not optional. Since that is where they are added they have to displayed with their input box. If you mean the internal Legacy RIN that is displayed in the title

[LegacyUG] making id number visible in the edit screen in Legacy v9

I know that in Legacy v8, one can make id numbers visible in the edit screen, but I don't recall how to *navigate through the options* to make this happen. In v9, how does one do this? Regards, Mike Christiaens -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Book - Report Options - Pictures Checkbox not working

Henry - Who'da thunk? Thanks for the tip/help - it's working fine. Larry From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Henry T. Peterson Jr. Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 10:04 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

If you are able to sort dates correctly in Excel then you are using a workaround/add on. You have to use a workaround and most of these are too advanced for the average user. I tested this again recently using Excel 365 which is their most updated version. I could not sort the dates and the

Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

I found the link below which provides a comprehensive discussion of the Excel issues with dates and work arounds. http://www.exceluser.com/formulas/earlydates.htm I am sure there are other discussions and work arounds. This was just one of the more comprehensive discussions that I found.

Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

There is(or used to be) an Excel Add-on you can install for pre 1900 dates but in its raw form versions of Excel up to 2007 did not understand dates before 1 Jan 1900. Dates were stored internally as the number of days since 1 Jan 1900. If your Excel is working for dates before 1 Jan 1900

Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

Michele, your current tip contains the following: "Excel can't handle pre-1901 dates so you will have a problem sorting by columns." Excel Does not have a problem with dates prior 1901. It can handle all formats of dates. I have several spreadsheets with some having thousands of records with

Re: [LegacyUG] Descendant Book - Report Options - Pictures Checkbox not working

Larry Go to the Sources TAB and unclick option "If event has multiple citations ~ That should allow you to selected the choices you just mentioned. Henry From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Larry Lachance Sent: Monday, June 12, 2017 8:45

[LegacyUG] Descendant Book - Report Options - Pictures Checkbox not working

>From the reports tab I select Descendant Book. I then select "report options" and go to the "Pictures" tab. Here are check boxes where one can select to include various pictures. The last two check boxes (they are not greyed out) are to "include master source pictures" and "include detail

[LegacyUG] Tip of the Day

Tip of the Day (Legacy Staff) - exporting as a CSV All versions (at least since 5) You can export the Name List and any Search List as a CSV file and then open that file in a spreadsheet program. I recommend that you use the free Open Office spreadsheet program and not MS Excel. Excel can't