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From: "Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] Reports and sources
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:42:07 -0000
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Following on from my earlier posting: as well as being unable to display
"Actual Text" in the sources in a report, I find I cannot get Notes attached
to a source to appear either. Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards
> Tui Lawrence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [FHU] Reports and sources


> I have been getting to grips with some of the reports and have found the
> same problems mentioned below with duplication of sources, and annoying
> quotation marks. I couldn't find a solution in the forum since this was
> posted. I have been trying to find a way of putting the "Actual Text"
field
> of a source record into a report. This would be particularly useful for a
> census report. In the Report Options there is a box to check to add text
> but I can find no difference in the way the sources are displayed whether
or
> not this box is checked.
>
> Am I missing a step somewhere?
>
> Regards
> Tui Lawrence
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:32 PM
> Subject: [FHU] Reports and sources
>
>
> > Apologies if these questions have already been asked but I've only just
> > started to attempt to compile a family group report. I've now produced a
> > report which has a long list of 115 sources at the end. The problem is
> that
> > most of these sources are duplicated (ie, Kingsclere Parish Registers
and
> > Greenham Parish Registers occur about 20 times each). What I would like
to
> do
> > is have an alphabetical list of sources (ie about 30 sources in total)
at
> the
> > end of the report so that for example Kingsclere Parish Registers only
> > appears once and every time it appears as a source the same number is
> used.
> > Is there any way I can get FH to do this other than rearranging the
> sources
> > manually in an RTF or Word document?
> >
> > Also all the sources appear in quotation marks and I can't find any way
of
> > getting rid of them. Have I missed something obvious here?
> >
> > How can I format the sources so that book titles, etc appear in italics?
> The
> > keyboard controls for italics do not seem to work when editing
individual
> > records. I would also like to be able to italicise ship names in notes
but
> > can't find any way of doing it. There's no edit menu available when
using
> the
> > individual record cards (the property dialogue). Is this an option which
> > might perhaps be included on a future upgrade. I would certainly
> appreciate
> > being able to copy and paste, etc. using the edit controls rather than
> trying
> > to remember all the keyboard commands.
> >
> > When I save a report as a custom report and try to access it again via
the
> > report menu it seems that I have to select all the records all over
again.
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Finally with regard to the census details I'm sure this question has
been
> > asked before but I don't recall seeing a response. I would like all the
> notes
> > for the census entries to appear alongside the relevant census data
rather
> > than at the bottom of the page which to my mind seems very confusing but
> > again I can't see any way of doing this other than editing the report
> > manually in Word.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Debbie
> >
> >
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