Hi Judy, thanks for your time and elaborate explanations. If you're telling me to be careful with cutting threads, you've got my full attention. Being careful was my reason for posting this question ... ;-) > Maybe if you tell me the URL for the thread, ... < This was in my last message: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EkC.2ACE/510 All I need to know is whether the following items taken together are correct: (1) Each single message below of and directly replying to the original query (not indented) can be moved into a separate thread. (2) Any direct answers to such moved posts that might follow - indicated by indentation - will be moved with them. (3) Any other following but unindented messages below, linked to the original query, together with indented further answers to them, will NOT get moved but stay in the original thread. Is this correct ? Guess I'll anyway go and just set up a dummy thread for testing and hope nobody will see it before I can delete it again. Tilman -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Judy Florian An: boards-admins@rootsweb.com Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. Dezember 2006 01:38 Betreff: Re: [BAd] Problem with taking apart a thread > > a.. Suhm & Reitzig : Kim Ranger -- 24 Mar 2001 > a.. Re: Suhm & Reitzig : Lawrence Suhm -- 22 Jan 2002 > b.. Re: Suhm & Reitzig : Mary Sims -- 5 Sep 2006 > a.. Ancesters : Nancy Idell -- 1 Apr 2001 > a.. Casper & Maria Augustin : Barb Peace -- 31 May 2001 > a.. Re: Austrian Geneology : Kathleen Lawson -- 28 Nov 2001 > a.. Re: Austrian Geneology : Kathleen Lawson-Schlosser -- 28 Feb 2002 IMPORTANT: the directions below are ONLY for the end of the thread OR if the posts you'll move are UN-ATTACHED to the "main" (I can't be sure from your post IF these are unattached or not). Usually, posts further down that might move well are "flush-left" under the 1st posting. The flush-left posts might be 20 posts down in the thread. BUT always, always, always double check that what you decide to move will NOT take pieces with it that you did not intend! For example, if you started with a.. Ancesters : Nancy Idell, the move could take all the other 3 with it in the move. ALSO IF there are ANY other posts you did not list that are below these in the thread, then ALL those will "move" along with the ones below. ALWAYS review collapsed view of a thread to visually find where a thread can be broken. A useful tip on LONG threads is to fix all the posts first. Then COPY/PASTE the Collapsed View into Windows Notepad or even a blank email box -- whichever retains the indent/bullets. Then you can put spaces between what you want to break and see IF it would work as you intend. ALSO, you can put something in a couple subject lines *temporarily*, like a capital Z, so you can better "see" the posts you intend to move. Once you are SURE of the effect of your intended move, then delete your capital Z *first* (it's easier now than to hunt for the posts after the move). Then, move the posts. Go to the first Austrian Genealogy (by the way, genealogy does not have 2 o's in it, instead it is ealo.... Anyway, remove the Re: from the first one, save changes. Then, move by typing surnames.name-of-board Repeat steps for Casper and Maria Finally, repeat for Ancestors (Ancestors has an "e" then an "o" instead of e & e) Hope these steps help. Judy