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Thanks Jane.

I recently transferred FH to a new PC but was unable to find where FH stored the customisation of my diagrams. Consequently I was running back and forth between two computers trying to get the diagrams to get them to look the same. Where is this customisation held? Nor can I understand why FH puts l...

Thanks Jane - you've confirmed the line of attack I was going to take.

I have created three customised attributes for 'Birth Certificate', 'Marriage Certificate' and 'Death Certificate' and insert a value of 'Y' to denote when I have found the certificates for a person. I would like to change the original wording to 'BC found?' etc, but cannot see how to change the ori...

I've tried this and other mouse-wheel programs, but FH Reports stubbornly refuse to scroll with the wheel.
I know this is a wish-list item...I really hope that it's implemented soon!

Thank Jane. Your suggestion puts the marriage in first part of the report after Father, Mother Spouse, but I was wanting marriage to be listed in the second part, in the 'Individual Events and Attributes' section and in date sequence order so that one can see all the main events in chronological ord...

How can I get Marriage to appear in the list of 'Individual Events & Attributes' on the Individual Summary Report. Birth, Christening & Death are listed, but not Marriage. I know Marriage appears under the Marriage heading further down the report, but it would be useful to have it listed under event...

Instead of printing diagrams - which may annoyingly spill over onto two pages - directly from Family Historian, if you copy and paste them into MS Word you can then resize the imported image to fit on an A4 sheet. This can then be saved as a Word document for future reference or emailed to someone. ...

Many thanks for the mouse wheel functionality in Queries.
Can it now be added to the Reports so that they can be scrolled up and down on the screen?

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Thanks Jane. Perhaps you could remove this item from the Wish List?

Could we have a few formatting options when printing the results of Queries? Currently the output is printed in very small type, and with no left hand margin which makes filing using a hole-punch unsatisfactory. Or, given that we have so many formatting options in Reports, could Queries be output to...

I know that text formatting of Notes has already been requested, but could we have a facility to PRINT notes? I use Notes extensively, but the only way of printing that I have found is to Select All, then copy and paste into Notedpad - which has a printing facility. In FH, whenever a Note is display...

I find the Custom ID facility is very useful when tracking all those relatives with the same name - George begat George begat George etc! I generate the Custom ID by copying the program generated Record ID. The program I used before converting to Familiy Historian used to display this ID after the n...

On the DETAIL tab of the Individual's Record surely the EMIGRATED field should be linked to TO, and IMMIGRATED linked to FROM? I have a relative to emigrated from London to Canada which I can't input correctly with the present fields. Perhaps an item for the Wish List would be to allow the Emigratio...

Thanks Simon. Mouse-wheel support, and also the space-bar 'grabber-fist' toggle, would also be invaluable in the multimedia objects windows to navigate around,for example, a certificate that has been scanned in at high res. The result of such a scan is a large image, only part of which is immediatel...

Simon, yes, it acts like a toggle. Whilst the space-bar is held down, the curser turns into, and acts as, the grabber-fist. As soon as the space-bar is released, the cursor reverts to normal. This feature is also present in Adobe Acrobat Reader (as well as Photoshop). I think that FH does not curren...

Can I request that as an addition to the Grabber icon on the toolbar you adopt the Adobe Photoshop method of using the Space bar to invoke the Grabber functionality when viewing diagrams? This way you could move around a large diagram very easily without the need to keep clicking the Grabber icon to...

Could I request that you provide mouse wheel support in the results of queries and reports. These are often quite large, and I miss not being able to scroll up and down with the wheel.

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Jane,
Many thanks for such a quick response, and help with the query.
I've only had Family Historian for two days, and am already extremely impressed at its capabilities. The support you offer on this board is second to none! Now, back to reading that excellent manual.......!

Could some clever person write me query that calculates 'average age at death' - preferably of male ancestors on the paternal line? Some programs do this, but I can't see a way in Family Historian.
Many thanks,
Geoff.

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