Yes, that's exactly what Bill said. It's the From field. And I finally did notice that it changes depending on the view. Thank you both. I must have been in Never Never Land when I last tried to monkey around with this field a few months ago--it's showing up just fine now if I put something in the From field. The tracts I map are all from the Commonwealth of Pa. or the Land Office so I never put anything in that field. I guess I can't control everything! Thanks everyone, Marie. >-----Original Message----- >From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:lhoffman@acm.org] >Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:18 PM >To: DEED-MAPPER-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [DMU] Fields > > >Marie Robinson wrote: >>This may be a hard one to explain--along the bottom of the window border, >>there are some fields or boxes for information from some of the program >>fields. For instance, for me, on the left, it says: >> >>For Help, press F1 >>next box the date of the highlighted tract shows >>next box is empty >>next box shows the information from the To field >>next box is the area of the tract (sq ft) >>next one empty >>next shows NUM >> >>What field would show up in the second box? I would really like >to have the >>"Typ" or "Id" field information show up there. Can I control that? > >You are looking at the status bar and if you click on the Table View tab >(just above the "For Help, Press F1" message), you will see >highlighted the >deed that is shown in the status bar. In the case of the 2nd field (empty >in your case for this deed), it is the From entity of the deed. The fifth >field (also empty in your case) and the sixth field (Num in your case) >show the status of the Insert (OVRwrite) and Num Lock keys. However, I do >not see that depressing the Insert key makes any difference in my >installation although I never use it much anyway. > >You can find this under Status Bar when you press F1 to display the Help >Index. Note that the content of some of these fields change depending on >the View selected -- particularly the fourth field. > >As far as I know there is no way to select what is display7ed in >the Status >Bar fields except as noted above. > >Hope this helps - > >Lee Hoffman/KY >TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com> >My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman> >A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG) > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >