On 24 March 2014 08:09, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > > If I combine both files is there a way that I can easy show the difference > between the two, i.e. using different colours for instance. > Although you can't use colours you can add columns to the record window or on diagrams to show which tree is which, you could use the Custom ID field, or a possibly simpler solution is to using an expression to show Ancestors of a particular progenitor. So for example =IsDescendantOf(%INDI%,Record(246,"I")) will return a Y for every one whose ancestors includes record number 246 (in my case 246 is top of my Taubman Line). You could combine this with some TextIf functions to have a single column for a number of different trees. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk