In Diagram Options, General Tab, you can either untick 'Check for Duplicates' or click on Options next to Check for Duplicates and then untick 'Link Duplicates in the Diagram'. (This is in V5, but I think it was the same in earlier versions.) Lorna On 26/12/2013 17:05, Dennis Hawkins wrote: > I have created a diagram of the Royal Family dating back to Alfred the Great. It’s a small tree but very complicated, so it has a lot of those colured curved link lines, which make it quite difficult to follow the ancestral line. Is there any way of not having these coloured link lines? > Dennis >