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Thanks for the extra information Virginia. I was able to change it. "like this" button. Also there is a fault on the site .I logged on and went to your answer and clicked on "like this" button and I got a pop up message saying You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day". I have only just turned the computer on and havent used like this before and havent been on the site for months. I realise "today" may be yesterday for me but never used it. kind regards

Hello Jim I am running a descendant indented chart. What do you mean by< what setting is used so that abbreviations are used?>? I just use send to word and file name. Nothing different. In the general tab I just have report title, output language, number of generationsand blank sureity and no threshold. The only other field to change is the name and address of the sender/creator of the report. No other fields relate to tags. Under tags I just have birth death marriage buria ticked. I cant see anything that shows me what abbrieviations I am going to get with this chart. I just know it is never dea. I dont kow much about this version. Has it changed? .. thank you

Please advise. Has anyone used Microsoft 7 operating system and the office suite Word 7 for producing reports? Just decendants and journal narrative. If reports can be done in Word 7, will the people using older Word versions have any problem opening them via email attachment? ( This was a problem if Vista not set up properly I believe. I had a few people who had problems opening. I dont know why) (out of topic) My Word files for reseach go back to Windows 95. Are there any problems in opening with Word 7. Advice would be appreciated as my computer may be on the way to heaven. regards

Thanks Terry, such a lot to consider. lets hope I last out for 6 months. many thanks

Sorry Sam - no I meant Word 2007. I think the converter came in a windows update as it uses it when I send my V4 reports (that use Word 95) to Word 2003. I havent had any trouble with opening my older files using XP3 Word 2003. I dont want to use PDF as I want people to check the reports and make changes. As I explained above I need to be able to use TMG with Word 2007 with no hassles. I am ok at the moment but need to be aware of all the potential problems changing to Win 7 and Word 7 in relation to TMG V7 compatibility. From what I hear I can only hope nothing happens to my computer in the next few months. I will keep the link re converting files in case I need to give it to anyone thanks. Thank everyone I will keep an eye on the forum from now on as sure to be more on the subject and will find the older threads to this topic. Just to add I hear you can keep XP3 on your computer as well as Win 7.

That is good. many thanks. I think a couple of my "families" were not familiar with computers as I had no problem sending business document drafts to people on their home PCs as well as office PCs. I was using V4 and my reports had to be converted before I sent them which resulted with broken lines but that was ok. V4 suport up to win95. I will be changing back to V7 shortly. I noticed they tried to send me docx formatted file (as Terry mentoned not compatible).

Thank you very much Terry. Yes I meant Word 2007. There is certainly a lot to consider. I thought there would have been a thread and expected to be referred to it. You have actually provided a very apt summary of problems relevant to me as I really have to use Word reports as I intend to write my book in Word (then having a typesetter convert all the different numbered files into adobe into one pdf for the publisher) using some TMG repots in Word but manipulating the data and adding other larger chunks of information produced seperately in Word over the years so that it reads as a book. Currently I have "stored" lots of smaller bits of information as anecdotes and will incorporate these in context. Horror say the purists. I will also add in descendants charts for later generations. Thirdly I am currently getting people to update and check information I have so dont want to use pdf. So far the people contacted by email prefer to make alterations in the report. It is so much easier and the response rate is higher. So as you can see it is important to be able to use Word with TMG. Also the bit about capacity <system using 32-bit version >was valuable as I would not have given it any thought. Unfortunately I hope to be completed by April so need to make up my mind what to do now. Your information has been invaluable. Once again thanks.

Can anyone tell me how I can easily get a descendancy narrative report from the main person to include all his descendants please?. In version 4 this is automatic.

Sorry wouldnt work the first few times. Ansered abov

Thank you so much Virginia. Dont know why i missed it. Love the screen shots. I just wish they were in the manual!!

Hello Virginia Yes I have been doing this since you told me once before. I just rechecked the report V4 that had missing people and it was done. I cant find out how you change anything in the V6 report. ie options.

I found I didn't have a primary tag on burial in details page. I clicked on what I though was a primary tag action and now lost all details and shows a "filtered" in red and the burial tag I wanted to add is the only information showing. How do I get the details back again please?

I am new to V6. After transferring data I am working on the deault view. This shows children view on the right of the family details. I have another view for siblings under children but this doesn't have anything in it. Why am I missing arrows from the children view pointing to the main data which they feature. How do the arrows get ther in the first place? Can someone tell me please?

Ok thanks. I just went back in and these people do no thave children entered. But they are also the same people not appearing in mydescendancy chart!!

Hi Virginia. Am i doing it right now? thanks. No I was jsut about to post that I got it back thanks. I have just answered Jim and I still have thos lost people in my report. I posted again to say that in the V6 children view it is these missing people that dont have an arrow next to them..I am using what I had in V4 when I transferred months ago so it is something that has carried forward from version 4. My query was posted to another forum and of course I havent had any replies. Jusdt thought I would let you know. Thanks again

Hello Jim No descendants were not included. As I said I only got the primary person in the report and no descendants. That is information about this person only. It is called a descenant narrative report and I expected that I would get descendants . I had ticked "use current focus person". This automatically ticked on one person and his number. This is my problem. Obviously I have to tinker with a whole bunch of tasks to get this report. But what do I need to do.

Thank you. No you misunderstood. I need only the one line. When I did one person I just got his details. How do I get all his descendants. Generations have nothing to do with it. I just want as many as he has. I just tried all project and it went though 45,000 records. This was simple in V4. Obviously I have to put in other info but not a clue how to do this as no expanitory notes.

thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!!! susan You are an ANGEL!

I went back to V4 to record data as I like it much much better. I will transfer to V6 soon. But suddenly in a journal narrative report I noticed I was missing 5 people. This has never happened before. On investigation I found that some of my names in the family view have no primary tag (astrix) next to name and children are not numbered. There is just a question mark. This is happening in at least 5 of 9 names. Then suddenly, when I am not even doing anything a name will dissapear from the screen (child in family view) until I right click on the space to get it back. So this is visually happening in front of me. I cant recall seeing the missing tags before. Forgetting all but the basic features,which is all I use, what am I actually looking for in the manual to see if I can rectify this. If I go into edit and "make primary" I find it is not relevant for that action. On the bottom of my screen in the tool bar I have a message at different times "double click to draw a screen around this person" and " click on a tab or use the view menu to draw a screen around this person". It doesnt say which person and no idea what this means and who for. Is it relevant? Looking at my data only my first family (1) has children numbered. As i said I dint know how long I have had this. i need to stabilise before I transfer data which wont be for a few weeks. please advise

Hello Virginia I did try it on another line and it was ok. I will try and run it in version 6 as it is there as elll albeit not up to date. Do this later, thanks Yes the lines just go blank and name dissapears and I am not even working in the system. Right click and the name comes back. Usually in the first line in family(first child in family view) but not the wife on the other side of family view.

Jim it is too late to move me over now. We have made some progress and i was speaking with Vorginia. The question is obsolete based on new information.

Why do you say that Kaye? I read every post to every section, and I suspect most of the moderators and many of the other experienced users do too. I think there may not be responses to some questions there because nobody remembers those details, and most of us no longer have v4 installed. Ok if you want me to use V4 forum I will. But as it was pointed out to me before, that no one uses 4 anymore.

Hello Virginia No it is definately and clearly part of the interface of TMG. I have no other programme that the meesage would be applicable to. I shoudn't have said toolbar. It is at the borrom of the page in TMG. No I only downloaded the Reader yesterday but I did the report printout a few days ago and noticed the missing people. reader is never open. There are no other programmes open except TMGW, this one and explorer. I just went in to do a report and the message changed to "enter the destination data set". So it is a TMGW prompt. It is the journal narrative I am doing (custom). Now I just did one line and it was ok. I then did another report for the one I had trouble with before and it jumps from person (child)number 1 to person 5. So in the family view screen I see there is no astrix against child 1 and 3 and 5 and 6. So this doesnt seem to be a related problem. I am using Windows XP 3. So the above is a REAL problem. What my concern is in the way in which the names dissapear and also why not all of them have an astrix. Why is this and how can I fix it.? I cant find anything in the manual as I dont know what to look for. I want to get this right so that I can transfer to V6 I havent used this type of report for a few weeks and there doesnt appear to be any problem doing descendants indented charts. I just did one for the same family missing the names and it is ok. So astrix is not the problem, maybe it is something to do with journal narrative (custom) report. Oh and I did a repair and no problems. <notice whether you are using a keyboard shortcut in TMG at the time the message pops up? > No never use shortcuts and it doesnt actaully pop up. it is just there in the line and i think we can now agree they are just TMG prompts. kind regards kaye VirginiakayePosted Today, 01:18 PM QUOTE (Jim Byram @ 18 Jan 2010, 06:59 AM) If you are working in v4, why did you post this in the v6 forum? Becaue there is no one monitoring V4 and I hoped Virginia would answer. Most V6 people wuould have used V4.kayePosted Today, 01:15 PM Hello Virginia i am using XP3. No the message is in the toolbar of the programme. It looks like the programme and it is the line that has the time. But not the explorer time. Is it a tip I wonder. Maybe these messages hae always been there. No I havent downloaded anything at all. Just the latest acrobat reader yesterday. But my main trouble is to find a way of getting an astrix in the name box sin family view. may thankskayePosted Today, 01:09 PM QUOTE (Virginia Blakelock @ 18 Jan 2010, 05:48 AM) Kaye - The message 'draw a screen around this person' sounds like it is coming from some kind of screen-draw software. Have you installed anything like that recently? Check the Window Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to see if a program like that is running and if so, try shutting it down to see if that is conflicting with TMG. What operating system are you using? VirginiakayePosted Today, 01:07 PM Hi Jim I am using Windos XP2 with three updates. I dont want to change because I wont be able to run a lot of my programmes. cheersJim ByramPosted Today, 06:59 AM If you are working in v4, why did you post this in the v6 forum?Virginia BlakelockPosted Today, 05:48 AM Kaye - The message 'draw a screen around this person' sounds like it is coming from some kind of screen-draw software. Have you installed anything like that recently? Check the Window Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to see if a program like that is running and if so, try shutting it down to see if that is conflicting with TMG. What operating system are you using? VirginiakayePosted Today, 04:42 AM I went back to V4 to record data as I like it much much better. I will transfer to V6 soon. But suddenly in a journal narrative report I noticed I was missing 5 people. This has never happened before. On investigation I found that some of my names in the family view have no primary tag (astrix) next to name and children are not numbered. There is just a question mark. This is happening in at least 5 of 9 names. Then suddenly, when I am not even doing anything a name will dissapear from the screen (child in family view) until I right click on the space to get it back. So this is visually happening in front of me. I cant recall seeing the missing tags before. Forgetting all but the basic features,which is all I use, what am I actually looking for in the manual to see if I can rectify this. If I go into edit and "make primary" I find it is not relevant for that action. On the bottom of my screen in the tool bar I have a message at different times "double click to draw a screen around this person" and " click on a tab or use the view menu to draw a screen around this person". It doesnt say which person and no idea what this means and who for. Is it relevant? Looking at my data only my first family (1) has children numbered. As i said I dint know how long I have had this. i need to stabilise before I transfer data which wont be for a few weeks. please adviseReview the complete topic (launches new window) English Lo-Fi VersionTime is now: 18 January 2010 - 05:35 PM// Powered By IP.Board © 2010 IPS, Inc. Licensed to: Wholly Genes, Inc. .

Becaue there is no one monitoring V4 and I hoped Virginia would answer. Most V6 people wuould have used V4.

Hello Virginia i am using XP3. No the message is in the toolbar of the programme. It looks like the programme and it is the line that has the time. But not the explorer time. Is it a tip I wonder. Maybe these messages hae always been there. No I havent downloaded anything at all. Just the latest acrobat reader yesterday. But my main trouble is to find a way of getting an astrix in the name box sin family view. may thanks