Family Historian User Group

Help!
I hate dotted lines on my diagram. For some reason the diagram has moved areas of my tree to one side as though they don't fit. so instead of reading siblings from left to right, one sibling in the middle has been moved right over to the right via a dotted line. I have tried to move the siblings apart to create room for the whole of the descendants from one of the siblings but I can't get the diagram to remove the crooked dotted line. I know how to turn off the proxy box but I hate these cross over dotted lines. Happy to send the gedcom file if it helps

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Which version of FH are you on? If you have version 3, you can get rid of proxy boxes in the Diagram Options dialog. Presumably you are using an 'All Relatives' diagram. You probably can't get rid of horizontal dotted lines in those, unless you have a very simple tree. You might find that you get results you are happy with you if re-order siblings - which you can do using the 'Movement Control Box' (see the Diagram menu). Alternatively, you might find that you get results you are happier with if you insert multiple trees of other types into a single chart (e.g. multiple descendant or ancestor trees or a combination, rather than a single 'All Relatives' tree).

None of the above applies if you have version 2 however.

Thanks for the advice Simon, it's version 3.1 I've got. I'm a bit disapointed that the diagram doesn't just arrange the descendants in a roughly pyramid shape instead of moving people around via these dotted lines, I think in an effort to make a compact looking tree instead of a very wide one. I have tried moving siblings around without changing there order but I can't slide the groups I want past others to place them directly below the relavant sibling. I think I understand the idea of combining smaller multiple trees and I'll have a go. It just seems a lot of messing around to do something I would have thought was very simple. I've used Genopro before this and there is total freedom in the construction of the diagram which I miss even if the rest of the software is very basic.
Thanks again, I'll let you know if I succeed.