Chapter 2:  Accenting the names of people

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One of the most exciting features of Family Tree SuperTools is the ability to highlight or "accent" the names of people in different colors, based on user-defined conditions. This feature gives you new and powerful ways to learn about your data. In this simple example, the names of men and women are distinguished by color.

Notice that the accent conditions can be displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Accents can use any number of conditions, each with its own assigned foreground and background colors. An additional color combination can be specified to distinguish the names of people who meet more than one condition.

In this example, people born in Tennessee are shown in red, those who died in Virginia are blue, and those for whom both is true are in green.

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The accent conditions are specified on the Accent Definition screen.

Accents can be based on the value of flags (e.g., Sex, Living, etc.), field values (e.g., country of birth, surname, etc.) or on a long list of calculated conditions (e.g., age, # of children, etc.)

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An accent definition can be saved to a file and restored later, making it easy to switch between different collections of accent conditions and colors.

You can even share your creative accent settings with other researchers.