Ok, so everything must be identical but in the comments place I found various versions of this @[email protected] Just what the heck is this thing, Please? SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento,CA http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm all my mail scanned by Norton Below is the only place that will accept attachments [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne League" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Sources problem > "Sandra E. T. Duncan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I just tried that pasting thing but I still cannot get the same exact > >sources to merge, IMHO I think it is because they are linked to different > >people but then I am not a FOW expert so I am hoping to learn that very > >thing on this list > > It makes no difference at all who they are linked to. > > If they won't merge then they are not identical ... even tho they may > look identical, one may have one or more invisible characters such as > a space that the other doesn't have. > To force them to merge you must go to each field in turn in the one > source and highlight the whole field by either click and drag across > the entire thing, or you can set the cursor at the beginning of the > field and press CRTL SHIFT END to highlight the entire field including > all leading and ending spaces and then press CTRL C to copy that > field. Then go to the same field in the other source, highlight the > entire field in the same way and press CRTL V to paste the previously > copied field. After you do that with every field in the source, then > press the merge button in the source manager while the source is > highlighted and then they will indeed merge. > > When you merge sources and one is cited by different people than the > other, the merged source will be cited by all the people who > originally cited both sources. > > Sometimes you may find that a person will cite the same source more > than one time. In this case you must go to the person and remove the > extra citings of the same source. To find out who uses each source, > highlight a source in the source manager and press the print button > there. You should check for this on all sources you merge. > > Wayne League > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. >