Tree boxes moving

jsphillips · Post by **jsphillips** » 15 Mar 2013 11:39

Hi Jane & Mike
I use Roots Magic Family Treemaker & Family Historian.
Each program has its pros & cons.
I am dedicated to Family Historian mainly and the only item I find hard to control is the moving, manipulating of the boxes within a tree.
I do not know if this has been raised before but is there any reason why rather than using all the tools ie grabbber etc, you cannot just click on a box and pull it to it a new position. Likewise to move the whole Tree up etc.
This is similar to Family Treemaker.
I use all the queries Diagrams reports etc in FH 5 its great. But I am forced to using the Family Treemaker 2012 Descendant & Ascendant Trees so I can fine tune movements of the boxes.I find the grabber moving and resizing very clumsy.
Has this been brought up in the Wish List ??
Thanks for any help.

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PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 15 Mar 2013 13:27

One of the many great features with Family Historian diagrams is the ability to add a new spouse, parent, or child to an individual by clicking on their box and dragging in the relevant direction. I would certainly not wish to lose that most useful functionality.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 15 Mar 2013 18:25

Are you using the Box move tool box or just the page moving?

With the tool box on there are a whole raft of options to move and arrange boxes.

gerrynuk · Post by **gerrynuk** » 15 Mar 2013 18:57

Have you checked out the new videos at

http://www.family-historian.co.uk/support/videos

These explain the options very well.

jsphillips · Post by **jsphillips** » 16 Mar 2013 10:45

Thank you. The video I had never found before and was VERY useful.
I essentially wanted to do just 2 things
1 Just move one (single box ie person ) in a Family Group.
2 Move whole diagram Higher up to the top of the paper before printing.

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