99% of the time I am working on-screen, not with printable reports. I'd like to be able to read what's in the description. I use the description field to provide details that make the fact meaningful. For example, for a residence fact: "44 Meserole Avenue: The household included William Reichert (38), Elizabeth Reichert (36), Lillian Reichert (16), Edward Reichert (13), Mildred Reichert (10), Edna Reichert (6), William Reichert (5), Albert Reichert (3 9/12)." For a military fact: "Leander Morley volunteered for a second enlistment in the Army of the United States, Company K, 53rd Regiment, with Capt. Anderson. Isaac Morley also volunteered on the same day." More often than not, I'd like to add more content to the description field than space allows. ________________________________ From: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net> To: Debbie <growingatree@hotmail.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] The Great Debate Debbie, WHAT do you put in the description field for a fact, where you want it to word wrap? It will word wrap when printed, just not on the screen. What do you use the description field for? Russ

Debbie, Have you thought about putting the Residence Fact Description into the Residence fact NOTES. I do that all of the time. When looking at that fact, I just open the Fact Notes and see what you posted. NOT in the Description. As Judy pointed out, you can hover over the description to see that Military Fact. But again, would put that into the Fact Notes. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net ________________________________ From: Debbie <growingatree@hotmail.com> To: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] The Great Debate 99% of the time I am working on-screen, not with printable reports. I'd like to be able to read what's in the description. I use the description field to provide details that make the fact meaningful. For example, for a residence fact: "44 Meserole Avenue: The household included William Reichert (38), Elizabeth Reichert (36), Lillian Reichert (16), Edward Reichert (13), Mildred Reichert (10), Edna Reichert (6), William Reichert (5), Albert Reichert (3 9/12)." For a military fact: "Leander Morley volunteered for a second enlistment in the Army of the United States, Company K, 53rd Regiment, with Capt. Anderson. Isaac Morley also volunteered on the same day." More often than not, I'd like to add more content to the description field than space allows

May I suggest you place the long bits of information in the Fact Note. You can then see the additional information wrapped and formatted as paragraphs, lists, underlined, etc. You can see the notes in either * Person work area by selecting the Fact and clicking the Note tab in the right panel. * Tree work area by clicking the Notes Icon. This displays all notes: Personal, Fact and Shared. BJ On 2/22/2015 6:19 PM, Debbie via wrote: > 99% of the time I am working on-screen, not with printable reports. I'd like to be able to read what's in the description. I use the description field to provide details that make the fact meaningful. > > For example, for a residence fact: "44 Meserole Avenue: The household included William Reichert (38), Elizabeth Reichert (36), Lillian Reichert (16), Edward Reichert (13), Mildred Reichert (10), Edna Reichert (6), William Reichert (5), Albert Reichert (3 9/12)." > > For a military fact: "Leander Morley volunteered for a second enlistment in the Army of the United States, Company K, 53rd Regiment, with Capt. Anderson. Isaac Morley also volunteered on the same day." > > More often than not, I'd like to add more content to the description field than space allows. > > > ________________________________ > From: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net> > To: Debbie <growingatree@hotmail.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 6:43 PM > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] The Great Debate > > > > Debbie, > > WHAT do you put in the description field for a fact, where you want it to word wrap? It will word wrap when printed, just not on the screen. > > What do you use the description field for? > > Russ > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message