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Sorry Mike for overload. I will 'contain' myself. But you answered a lot of what i asked and thanks for that. I was looking for a setting to make sure i dont lose various boxes, and will try what you suggest. And yes will leave how to expand Dates etc for a little while. I obviously need learn how t...

Dog Coat colour didnt look right, so removed dog part and managed to get to this position. Winning I think? And probably i do similar for registration details? how or where do i learn about coding use in these a little. :-) And perhaps something i asked before, how would i easily expand the dates to...

Just tried a little myself, to add Dog coat colour, and I got box in image, which doesnt look easy to modify template text.. It did give me the option of what to include again ( , Place, Date, cause, age , notes etc 5 things, which i didnt untick), so deleted from the scheme, went back, added again ...

Good evening Mike Today i got to the PC and played for several hours. This PC is one i have used with FH for at least 8 years ( occasional hardware changes) but always with 2 monitors minimum, occasionally 3. (unlike the problem a couple of weeks back on a laptop with 3 monitors, where i was having ...

Mike I have tonight got onto the PC I have FH on. First thing I tried was to Open the Merlin Line diagram, and then click ( doubleclick) on a Box to try get up the properties box. It just does not happen. So i switched to a normal Gedcom ( at random from 14) and tried. It still does not work. I have...

Hi Mike I havent had a chance to try the Add note 'Bling' yet. as I havent got FH on this machine. I am glad the schemes with 'colour' were not through something i did. But maybe i willl need chnage the name of mine to 'Dog Colour' to be clear. I did try adding the 'colour Fact to the Merlin Text sc...

Hi Mike The window for the Note wasnt showing anywhere, so must have been off screen, I will Cascade windows this evening and check what happened. Re more than one note, that was because some are from different people, or on different Topics. I will keep the one note in mind, but it may be difficult...

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HI So, following the advice given, I decided to create a project to play with and see how I got on. I don’t (or haven’t yet) attached images to my Main Gedcom’s. My intention was to make copies up to the oldest dates of images I do have, and make them separate to my main Gedcom’s. So for a play proj...

Great Thanks I will play with things, and see what happens. Then return to subject when more familiar. It did leave me with this bit I mentioned about having other images of a person behind their main image. My idea was that when you clcik on someone's existing image it shows you others avaiable for...

Hi and thanks for responses. I was asked by several family if I was able to produce a Family Booklet with Photo's and basic information. And a reasonable size image. So I was trying out my options, but couldnt work out how to do what i wanted easily in FH. A printed version for some was felt less li...

Hey , you are not that far from me, I am in Norfolk near Kings Kynn. I rather hoped a plugin or similar might exist that enabled something like this. What I wanted to do was us ethe Faily tree , then choose an output. But having multiple photo's doesnt seem to be an option in FH. I looked everywhere...

I wish to produce a simple 'book' type family tree or chart. With large photo's , and just simple facts , like Name, Birth year, Death year. etc, and output with A4 pages, ( altering image/box sizes as appropriate). So i have for example Great Grandparents and children ( possibly grandchildren depen...

I can see thats causing issues, but I have been doing this on my machine at home for years and never ever seen this issue there. Plus at times it really is necessary to have at least 2 geds open, at times three. Hence multiple monitors. Is ther a workaround, or a way perhaps CP can make it so that a...

Tonight spent a couple of hours playing, and with some success, and some more irritating issues as well. But maybe narrowed things a little. So I did as tatewise suggested, started machine, and did a restart, and then opened a gedcom on the laptop monitor, this worked fine, and all expected boxes sh...

Thanks I tried that when i had an instance of 'missing' but coouldnt see how I could identify the open Dialogue box for the Citation addition or the Properrties window. Played some more and have identified a few more details I will post
Bill

Hi and thanks So yes I did click the Float properties box you highlighted. I just used a slightly different name! And I was aware of the Cascade feature in windows to see screens that have disappeared, so it was that one i used , as you suggested, not the FH one you mention. I have had issues before...

Ok, I went back onto Laptop, opened Family Historian to the same gedcom ( Which was created on FH), and tried again. I can close the Properties box, and re open it as i said in earlier post, although still not sure which method I am meant to use. BUT If I choose to click Allow Properties box to Floa...

Hi I will try looking for windows off screen a bit later as not there at the minute. You may be right, and possibly when i am thinking the program has crashed , maybe it is just locked waiting for a response from something I am not seeing. But Never had this before. Thanks Bill

Hello again all, and happy new year. I am on FH Version 7.0.22 Yesterday I was tidying up one of my smaller gedcoms, which i do not use as a project, but as a standalone Gedcom. As far as i am aware I was Doing things i have done many times before. But encountered Two problems I havent had before. N...

Thanks for advice, I have ( slowly, as had lots on elsewhere), been looking through as advice given. I will do more as I can, and any more questions come back for advice, I remmeber using UDf tool before and had some fun!

So thanks again all
Bill

The gedcom in discussion is one originally constructed in Family Historian, though some years ago bits imported via Gedcom from FTM.

I am away for a few days as my Uncles funeral, but will read these replies, and comment when i get a chance. Thanks everyone so far for responses.

Bill

Images seem to to have attached sorry