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A quick experiment shows that: =FindText(%OBJE.FILE[1]%,"\") will return the position of the first backslash character. You can then use MID or SECTION to grab the text you need. The difficulty for me is that my File shows multiple backslashes for directory nesting, and they have different levels, e...

I'm guessing the OP is using Tools > Work with Data > Places... which doesn't allow filtering in the way Helen describes as part of the Places tab, and lists the headings as Part 1, Part 2, etc.

I think the function FindText does this ... have a look here:

https://www.family-historian.co.uk/help ... dtext.html

It suggests to me the problem is more complicated than just 'protection' ? I believe Windows Snip / Snipping Tool is just taking a screenshot though, not getting the original file. In fact, screen shots/snipping is the recognised way of avoiding file protection / right click protection, etc. :D I d...

I had that error pop up on a quite a number of images on different sites; so much so that I decided using web clipper was more effort than it was worth. I couldn't see any sort of pattern of why they were failing, I surmised it was something to do with how the image was stored on the server, or thum...

No, I'm pretty sure you can't switch them off. I've tried every knob, button and switch on every UI to no effect. And it is driving me insane, I absolutely hate the new bell icon. The best I can suggest, as you've probably already found yourself, is to click on it, and then quickly click again, whic...

There isn't an option that I can find to position the icons. However, my icons are and always have been left-aligned at the bottom of the box and I have never seen a screen shot where they have been anywhere else, so it's surprising they are centred on your screen. Could you supply a screen shot ple...

In my opinion, it's things like you are collecting that make the difference between a family history and a family tree - knowing if someone was up in court, or won a singing prize, or one of the many everyday things that happen - help add interest to an otherwise clinical list of facts. I scan the r...

In my experience, a lot of FaG entries with no image seem to have been mass-copied from other sites (usually cemetery records), so the quoted date is more likely to be burial than death. You're right of course, but I would go further. A lot of information that appears to be from the picture is actu...

For each headstone I find, I set up a new Generic Source and add the media to it. I do not add a date to the media item, as (especially for multiple burials) it does not make sense - you will find the headstone appearing half way through some of the people's lives in the media tab which looks very u...

Thanks, I have now voted. Considering it's 15 years old I'm not sure it will be addressed. I suppose at least I have my answer that it's not a setting that is remembered, despite the Remember Settings tick box.

Can I ask a follow-up question please? When I open a chart (for example, a descendant chart, but they all seem to behave in the same manner) they always open at 100% scaling. I am aware of the Fit/Area/Opts buttons at the top of the screen and know how to zoom in/out. However, I would like to fix th...

Could you post the same Edit Text Scheme Item for the other marriage events please, i.e., the His Age and Her Age definitions.

I think this depends on which Text Scheme you are using for your diagram, so try this: 1. Right click on a blank space in your diagram and choose Diagram Options ... 2. Click on the Text tab of the box that pops up 3. Click on the Edit Text Scheme ... button the right of the box 4. Find the Marriage...

Thank you Mike for the solution, and explaining the difference. The functions in FH work much differently to what I am used to in other environments. I guess I'm now a bit of a dinosaur and I need to get my brain to work around the different paradigms modern environments present. Thanks for the cont...

Mike, Can you help with a function related to these boxes please? I wish to display the first name of the spouse in a diagram box. If I create a line with the reference: %INDI.FAMS>HUSB>NAME:FIRST% I get what I expect in the box - the first name of the husband (or wife if I change HUSB to WIFE) Howe...

Hi PP, I have amended my layout slightly so it looks like the diagrams below: latest1.jpg latest.jpg In case you want to use them, I have attached the icons I use (red/green/black) circles and squares. Circles means GRO Index and squares means certificates. I have included green circles and squares ...

If the result is a string and the initial characters are always "... of", you could try using a text function to remove it:

=MidText(Record(TextToNumber(GetLabelledText(%INDI.EVEN-GEDMATCH.NOTE2%,"Shared Couple:")),"F"),7,0)

I hadn't remembered that I would need to update the expressions in the boxes section that control the icons - thanks for the reminder ;) 1) I've set the status as Never Married rather than Unmarried Couple as I believe that the children here may have been born in an "upstairs/downstairs" situation, ...

Thanks for the invaluable help, Mike. This now works as shown below. I don't think I could have figured this out on my own, so your help is much appreciated. The final Status part had me foxed for a while as they were appearing blank ... until I realised I didn't have a Status set :roll: I will have...

Here's the graphic to show what happens:
And just to show the box types:

Hi Mike, Thanks for your help. Yes I have a bit of blind spot around family records, but what you explain does make sense. Changing the expression to the one you kindly supplied fixes the second issue, and displays all marriages: new_marr.jpg I reviewed the box types as you suggested, and I had alre...

Could some kind and knowledgeable soul help me with customising text in diagram boxes please. tree.jpg The woman in the top left of this tree was married to the man in the top right, but her marriage date does not show. The text for the box is: M: %CUR~FAMS>MARR.DATE:COMPACT% in =TextPart(%CUR~FAMS>...

You don't appear to have followed instruction (2) - "Untick 'Show most commonly-used items only'", which is underneath the list of available items.

Sometimes a file won't copy or move if the operating system thinks it is in use (whether it actually is or not). I've found this can happen if my cloud backup service is currently copying the file. Also, sometimes the file is incompletely downloaded (again, whether it actually is or not) and althoug...