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    From J. Hugh Sullivan@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 23 00:40:59 2018
    Navigation from screen to screen in the Family and Pedigree views
    requires 90 year old men with shaky mouses to pin the arrow to a small
    red triangle.

    Surely Bruce has a better way to do that - I ain't Bruce.

    dit dit dit dot dot dot dit dit dit

    HELP! Thanks,

    Hugh

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 23 11:02:09 2018
    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:40:59 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) declaimed the following:

    Navigation from screen to screen in the Family and Pedigree views
    requires 90 year old men with shaky mouses to pin the arrow to a small
    red triangle.

    Unfortunately, I don't use RM -- I'm still a hold-out with the last version of The Master Genealogist (and miss Ultimate Family Tree -- which
    had the best report writer capability I've ever seen).

    dit dit dit dot dot dot dit dit dit


    I'm presuming that is supposed to represent Morse code SOS... However, the elements in simplistic Morse are dot and dash. In representing those in text, dit and dah, respectively, are used. Furthermore, to represent /characters/ the elements of each character are elided:

    dididit dadadah dididit


    --
    [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber
    HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

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  • From Charlie Hoffpauir@21:1/5 to Sullivan on Sat Jun 23 09:53:05 2018
    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:40:59 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh
    Sullivan) wrote:

    Navigation from screen to screen in the Family and Pedigree views
    requires 90 year old men with shaky mouses to pin the arrow to a small
    red triangle.

    Surely Bruce has a better way to do that - I ain't Bruce.

    dit dit dit dot dot dot dit dit dit

    HELP! Thanks,

    Hugh

    There's a clumsy way to do it. Say you're in Family view with the
    Father of the family you're interested in highlighted, and you want to
    scroll to the paternal ancestors of him. The "easy" way (for steady
    hands) is the red triangles. The clumsy way is to simply click on the
    next generation person, then on the pedigree view, then back to family
    view, and that person is now at the focus.
    Three clicks instead of one, but it's much easier to "hit" the larger
    boxes than the small triangles.

    In pedigree view, especially when showing 6 generations, I use this
    technique if I want to skip over several generations. In this case,
    it's faster than going via the red triangles. 3 clicks, click on the
    person, click on family view, click on pedigree view.

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  • From J. Hugh Sullivan@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 23 21:22:24 2018
    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:02:09 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:40:59 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) >declaimed the following:

    Navigation from screen to screen in the Family and Pedigree views
    requires 90 year old men with shaky mouses to pin the arrow to a small
    red triangle.

    Unfortunately, I don't use RM -- I'm still a hold-out with the last
    version of The Master Genealogist (and miss Ultimate Family Tree -- which
    had the best report writer capability I've ever seen).

    dit dit dit dot dot dot dit dit dit


    I'm presuming that is supposed to represent Morse code SOS... However,
    the elements in simplistic Morse are dot and dash. In representing those in >text, dit and dah, respectively, are used. Furthermore, to represent >/characters/ the elements of each character are elided:

    dididit dadadah dididit


    --
    [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

    Thanks - I was aware. WA4QZU

    I did not know what to use since most people don't seem to have the
    Amateur Radio License.

    Hugh

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 24 09:31:55 2018
    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:22:24 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) declaimed the following:



    I did not know what to use since most people don't seem to have the
    Amateur Radio License.


    There's always punctuation

    ... ___ ...

    (with the spaces between characters, again)


    --
    [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber
    HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

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  • From J. Hugh Sullivan@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 24 18:50:05 2018
    On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:31:55 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:22:24 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) >declaimed the following:



    I did not know what to use since most people don't seem to have the
    Amateur Radio License.


    There's always punctuation

    ... ___ ...

    (with the spaces between characters, again)

    I shudda thot of that. I'm a little slow this week - wife and son in
    hospital with pneumonia and I was in ER with bronchitis. Life happens.

    Hugh

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  • From Richard Damon@21:1/5 to Dennis Lee Bieber on Sun Jun 24 16:06:21 2018
    On 6/24/18 9:31 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
    On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:22:24 GMT, [email protected] (J. Hugh Sullivan) declaimed the following:



    I did not know what to use since most people don't seem to have the
    Amateur Radio License.


    There's always punctuation

    ... ___ ...

    (with the spaces between characters, again)



    since underlines tend to merge, I write Morse code with dashes/minus
    signs: ... --- ...
    so there is a bit of a space between the dashes, even if a bit more out
    of line.

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