To David Youse I am not sure why Alt+G is not clicking the sibling button. However, until I get it figured out, you can press F11 to add a sibling. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Youse" <dhyouse@comcast.net> To: <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk>; <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [BK] suggestion - dates in name field? (Also shortcut keysfortabs) > To John > > While we're on this subject, I note that all the Alt+key (/,n,t,o,y,p,f,m > and h) shortcuts all work for me. Pressing Alt and the key takes me > directly > to the selected data entry location. There is one other Alt+key that does > not work as expected. Selecting Alt+g for the Add Sibling tab only > highlights the tab itself. To get to the data entry point you must then > press enter. Is this by design or is there something different about my > setup? > > I'd like to see a keyboard shortcut to scroll through spouses. > > David Yosue > > -----Original Message----- > From: J. P. Gilliver (John) > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:36 PM > To: bk@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BK] suggestion - dates in name field? (Also shortcut keys > fortabs) > > In message <44F0F607848D490E8A6FFF9E327F44FF@Dell4600>, John Steed > <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >>To J P Gulliver > > (Gilliver, but I'm used to that!) >> >>I might be able to make an option to show the birth and death date >>somewhere on the screen. I would need to find space. >>I would not want to put in in the top Name box or people would be >>confused and think it was part of the name and then delete it. > > Yes, I thought that; it would need a separating mullion to make that > clear (that it wasn't part of the name). And why I suggested making it > optional. > >>I will think about that. > > Thanks! Not important, just a suggestion. >> >>The Alt+/ should still work to get to tab 1. It does not work from >>everywhere, but from most fields it will jump back there. > > Ah, I hadn't realised it still works - I'd assumed it didn't since the / > isn't underlined (as I see it). > >>The / is underlined on my screen. Perhaps you have a different font. > > Could be, though I wasn't aware I had. Hang on, a thought: yes, I've > just experimented, and under File | Options | Edit Screen, if I choose > no tabs bold or selected tab not bold others bold, the / is underlined; > if I choose Only selected tab bold or all tabs bold (and yes, I an > "English and 1024 by 768 or larger"), it isn't. (Though for all the ones > I've tried, I haven't found where alt-/ - or Otto's alt-shift-/ - does > anything other than make the default error beep.) Not important though! > [] > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > A man is not contemptible because he thinks science explains everything, > and > a > man is not contempptible because he doesn't. - Howard Jacobson, in Radio > Times > 2010/1/23-29. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >