Introduction

A video introduction to the Focus WindowThe Focus Window is the primary workspace window.  It displays information about a chosen person, called the ‘Focus Person’. features, and how to print the detail it presents.

It is easy to switch the Focus Window to any Individual as the focus person. Just select an Individual recordEvery person in your tree will have a single Individual Record, which holds all the information about that individual that you have entered.  You can view and edit Individual records in the Property Box Dialogue. in the Records WindowThe Records Window provides a comprehensive view of all the information stored within a Family Historian project., a Named ListNamed Lists are a way in FH to group related items — which can be records of any type(s) — so that you can easily find them to work with., a QueryQuerying is a very powerful feature that allows you to specify and save criteria for identifying a set of records of a given record type. Result Set, or a Diagram and click the magnifying glass Focus button  in the main toolbar (next to Home button). Also, with a Property BoxThe Property Box is the primary window for data entry and for viewing details of stored records.  It is used with records of all types.   open, use the magnifying glass Display in Focus Window button in its toolbar.

Changing the Colours on the Focus Window

How to customise the Focus Window using the Colours option, but other features can also be changed by using related preferences.