Sorry Alfred - I guess I got my Gurus mixed up. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Modifying a Book report - WISH LIST > I think that I told this story before, so if you have already read, it > you can divert your eyes. > > I created an empty database, named it NoOutput. Then I went through the > Facts List and unchecked all of the output options for every fact. Then > I made a backup of it. > > Now if I want a report with only the birth, marriage and death facts, I > Restore the backup of NoOutput and import a GEDCOM that I exported from > the desired database. Go to the Facts List and put a check mark in the > output options for the facts I want, then create the report. > > After the report is created you can delete this database, you still have > the backup of NoOutput to use for the next project. > > > Alfred D. Eller > Help for Windows beginners: > http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > > ==========================

Don't be sorry! I probably got the idea from Wayne's Idea of setting up an empty backup so you could restore it and import GEDCOMS so that the sentence structure and other options would be as you had them set By the way, if you have some user defined facts, you could start by restoring a backup of your original database to a new empty folder, rename the newly restored database, delete everyone, all of the places and all of the sources to make it empty, . Then you can edit all of the facts. But since most of us are past middle age, I don't think we will have time to do all of that deleting. I have an idea coming on, (and it hurts my head, running around up there all by it's lonesome) Create the new Empty database, name it NoOutput. Then, you add a temporary individual to your main database and gave him all of the user created facts that you have created, you don't want to even fill them in so that your new, NoOutput database will have no places. Then drag and drop him to the new empty database, then delete him. All of those facts would now be in the new database. You would still have to edit the sentence structure, but you could do that as you are telling the fact not to print. If you haven't done a good job of naming the user defined facts, then they will be harder to find. Go through the Fact Types list, when you click on Edit for a fact, if you can edit it's name, it is a user defined fact. Woops! a glitch! You will have to add a spouse for this temp individual so that you can use the user defined "Family Facts." And, another little related prob, when you are dragging and dropping, there is no selection for "Family", but since the only person related to your temp individual is his wife, you can select everybody related. Alfred D. Eller Help for Windows beginners: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Stokes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [FO] Modifying a Book report - WISH LIST > Sorry Alfred - I guess I got my Gurus mixed up. > > Betty > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:56 AM > Subject: Re: [FO] Modifying a Book report - WISH LIST > > > > I think that I told this story before, so if you have already read, it > > you can divert your eyes. > > > > I created an empty database, named it NoOutput. Then I went through the > > Facts List and unchecked all of the output options for every fact. Then > > I made a backup of it. > > > > Now if I want a report with only the birth, marriage and death facts, I > > Restore the backup of NoOutput and import a GEDCOM that I exported from > > the desired database. Go to the Facts List and put a check mark in the > > output options for the facts I want, then create the report. > > > > After the report is created you can delete this database, you still have > > the backup of NoOutput to use for the next project. > > > > > > Alfred D. Eller > > Help for Windows beginners: > > http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > > > > ==========================