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Sorry, I thought you said the details were found on Ancestry in which case they are already public, as is the Church Parish Baptism Register from which they are taken. The details are also over 300 years old. The record may be public but the information from me as to which record is private. I won'...

Thanks, but sorry, specific details are private.

It was England, Ancestry baptism record, not original doc. It was MA in caps. I don't believe these were initials, but I think Ma as abbrev more likely. I've seen entries from Devon where vicar abbreviated all the first names and he used Ma as well. Margaret and Mary were not Ma. So it must be somet...

Can anyone say for sure what "Ma" might be.
I thought Maria or Martha, but is it a recognised abbreviation and if so for what? (It's definitely female)

There is an Option that affects Dates in Ancestor Outline and Descendant Outline Reports. On the Report Options > Format tab at the bottom there is a Format for Dates drop-list selection. If you choose Abbreviated(4) then EVERY Date is reduced to just the Year for all Facts . Thanks, that was exact...

Thanks, but it seems baptism year only appears in life dates if birth date is missing.

I understand this a lot better now but I have another question on the subject: The attachment shows the baptism fact as installed. In an outline report I want the baptism information to read (eg) Baptised 1820 If I change the abbreviation from Bap to Baptised it works as expected on the outline repo...

Doing the copy has fixed it. The facts now say standard and the narrative report is correct too

Thanks to both of you.

Thanks for the reply.

Standard.fhf is present. It's in a subdirectory of fact types called Standard (presumably because of the custom birth I created earlier.)

All the data was entered via the keyboard. I have been using version 2 for the last several years until about 3 weeks ago when I upgraded to version 5. The version was the download and has been updated to the latest. I have no problem with charts, I understand how to customise and make them appear a...

Thanks The first part about All and List only I understand now. For the second, I am getting there but not there yet... Here is an example. In a narrative report of a descendant it produces a standard format like this: John Soandso experienced birth in 1800 (and so on) what I want to do is produce a...

I'm trying to understand how the Events and Attributes work on Outline and Narrative reports. According to the Context Help on this I should see a list of all the Events and Attributes available when "All" is selected, but the list is greyed out. Also Custom Attributes can supposedly be added, but a...

Thanks
Display was set to Medium 125%, I changed it to 100% but it made no difference. I've changed it back.
Drivers are the latest, I've just checked. I've tried various compatibility modes etc by the way.

I think I'll have to report it or live with it.
Thanks again.

Thanks for the reply The font used here was Gabriola on the Title page However the spurious character problem appears with many other fonts eg Calibi or Candala and others. The missing heading-1 can appear even with the default font Arial. I have left this as the default by the way but at 20 pt. Sho...

Yes, I have 5.0.9 Yes, I mean Heading 1 - sometimes does not appear on some charts but not others Spurious characters appear at the end of the subtitle or author field - a single non keyboard character or the field might only half display (first half of author or subtitle names only shown) Default p...

Hi There seems to be a display bug when creating a book. With certain fonts and zoom levels, various titles and chart headings do not display properly (sometimes only on one page) Examples are - Chart heading is missing - Spurious character added to end of fields, usually the character is a non keyb...