Chapter 14: Navigating

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Family Tree SuperTools is designed to provide a variety of ways to view your data.

In a standard configuration, the primary name tag of the focus person is highlighted on the Person View in dark blue. (In this screen shot, it is circled in red.)

All of the other data on the screen is associated with that focus person. The Children window lists the children of that focus person. The Siblings window lists the siblings of the focus person.

The names of people on the screen appear in light blue.

(If Accents are in use or you have modified the default colors, then the names may appear in different colors.)

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If you click on one of the other tabs in that window, then the view will change but the focus person will remain the same.

In this example, the Tree View provides a different perspective on the same Focus Person. Notice that the contents of the other windows (Children and Siblings) remain unchanged because the focus has not changed.

The focus person on the Family and Tree Views are in dark blue by default and appear slightly recessed or "pushed in."

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If you double-click on another name, then the focus will change to that person but the view will remain the same.

The contents of the other windows will change accordingly.

In this screen shot, we clicked on a person in the Children window in order to make him the focus.

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You can change the focus person and the view at the same time.

Click one time on a name in order to highlight it (circled in red in this screen shot). Then click on the Person tab, for instance, to change the view while also changing the focus to that highlighted person.

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On the resulting Person View, we've clicked once on a marriage event to highlight it.

Clicking on Family tab, for instance, would change to the Family View while also changing the focus to Mabel Agnes Brown (the other person in the highlighted event).

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You can also use the Project Explorer to navigate within a project.

Here we have clicked on the toolbar button (circled in red) to open the Project Explorer which was then moved to the right side of the screen.

By default, highlighting a different person in the Project Explorer will cause the focus to be changed in the other windows.

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The arrow buttons at the top of the Project Explorer window allow you to move the focus up or down one line at a time within that window.

Once again, as the focus changes, the content of the other windows will be updated.

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The Project Explorer can be unlinked from the others, however, using a right-click menu option. Thereafter, you can navigate the Project Explorer without affecting the focus in the other windows.

See an earlier chapter for a more thorough discussion of the Project Explorer, including its sorting and filtering features.

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You can also use the Picklist to Navigate the project. Open the Picklist by clicking on the binoculars button (circled here in red) on the toolbar.

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The Picklist is an alphabetical list of all of the names in the project. It can be filtered and sorted in various ways. Highlight a name on the Picklist and click on the OK button in order to change the focus of the other windows to that person.

See an earlier chapter for a more thorough discussion of the Picklist.

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The Tag Entry Screen (accessed by double clicking on an event on the Person View) also has a handy navigation option.

When you right-click on a witness to the event, the resulting menu has an option to "Change focus to this person."

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If you make a mistake in navigation, you can click on the Last Viewed Person button (circled here in red) on the toolbar in order to return to the previous person.

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You can also create bookmarks to help you navigate quickly to specific people that you have designated.

The easiest way to work with bookmarks is to turn on the Bookmark Toolbar using the View > Toolbar menu.

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The Bookmark Toolbar include a button to create a bookmark for the current focus person.

Another toolbar button provides access to the Bookmark Manager.

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The listbox on the Bookmark Toolbar includes the primary name of each person for whom you have created a bookmark.

Select a person from the listbox in order to jump directly to that person.

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The bottom of the View menu displays the most recent navigation history.

Click on a name in that list to return the focus to that person.

This concludes Part II: User Techniques
and it is the end of the guided tour.

If you have additional questions about Family Tree SuperTools, please see the Product Page or write to support@whollygenes.com.