Thanks to Joanne Hintz who reminded me that images can be shared via Dropbox. Ralph, take a look at this annotated screen shot and see if it makes sense. The top half with the white background is a pedigree chart. The bottom half with the blue background is a family group sheet. This is the way FTM 16 is laid out. I've pointed to the admittedly obscure places that will close the various panels. The Index and the family group sheet can be toggled on and off with one click. You can also make the FGS larger or smaller by dragging the horizontal line that separates it from the pedigree area. Position your mouse pointer of the sizing lines until it looks like a double-headed arrow. Then you can click and drag to your preferences. The pedigree area (white background) can also be changed to display a family view instead. Click the two buttons circled in red. I hope this does the trick for you. Judy in Ocala https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzm0kucv40t9cy5/2-21-2015%201-35-23%20PM.jpg?dl=0 PS. To future generations who may find this message in the archives, the above link is probably broken by now. Sorry. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Judy In Ocala <treewright@gmail.com> wrote: > Ralph, can you describe what you mean by "classic layout view"? In 2014 > the 4 parts of the screen in the People area can be opened, closed, and > re-sized to the user's preferences. Just drag the boundaries. If you close > the right panel and index in the left panel you're left with a pedigree at > the top and a family group sheet at the bottom. That's how the display > looks in v. 16. > > Would that do what you want? > > Judy in Ocala > >

This screen looks good, but the bottom part can't be typed in except for the first entry of the name. After that you have to use the panel on the right side, so it seems kind of silly to hid it. By the way, I don't have LDS turned on, what does that RCIEPS in the parents block mean. I see it is on each child also. Mary Ellis Oh just to mention it... I was a programmer before I retired and if we had written a report that you had to run BEFORE you told it the parameters you wanted, they would have run us off the property. It is so strange to me that it is this way. It would make so much more sense to pick what subset of people or the whole file a report is being run for, what facts you want show, etc. Bye again... On 2/21/2015 2:49 PM, Judy in Ocala via wrote: > Thanks to Joanne Hintz who reminded me that images can be shared via > Dropbox. Ralph, take a look at this annotated screen shot and see if it > makes sense. > > The top half with the white background is a pedigree chart. The bottom half > with the blue background is a family group sheet. This is the way FTM 16 is > laid out. I've pointed to the admittedly obscure places that will close the > various panels. > > The Index and the family group sheet can be toggled on and off with one > click. You can also make the FGS larger or smaller by dragging the > horizontal line that separates it from the pedigree area. Position your > mouse pointer of the sizing lines until it looks like a double-headed > arrow. Then you can click and drag to your preferences. The pedigree area > (white background) can also be changed to display a family view instead. > Click the two buttons circled in red. > > I hope this does the trick for you. > > Judy in Ocala > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzm0kucv40t9cy5/2-21-2015%201-35-23%20PM.jpg?dl=0 > > PS. To future generations who may find this message in the archives, the > above link is probably broken by now. Sorry. > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Judy In Ocala <treewright@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ralph, can you describe what you mean by "classic layout view"? In 2014 >> the 4 parts of the screen in the People area can be opened, closed, and >> re-sized to the user's preferences. Just drag the boundaries. If you close >> the right panel and index in the left panel you're left with a pedigree at >> the top and a family group sheet at the bottom. That's how the display >> looks in v. 16. >> >> Would that do what you want? >> >> Judy in Ocala >> >> > ********************************** > 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 > -- If you don't know your family history, you are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ~ Michael Crichton ~ Mary W. Ellis http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncacgs/

Mary, You can type into the birth, death, and marriage fields in the People Workspace, Tree View. Don't know what RCIEPS means, haven't seen that one, As to the Report, You do NOT have to wait for it to complete. You can change what ever you want BEFORE the report completes. Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net ________________________________ From: Mary W. Ellis via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: Judy in Ocala <treewright@gmail.com>; ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 16 v. 2014: The Great Debate This screen looks good, but the bottom part can't be typed in except for the first entry of the name. After that you have to use the panel on the right side, so it seems kind of silly to hid it. By the way, I don't have LDS turned on, what does that RCIEPS in the parents block mean. I see it is on each child also. Mary Ellis Oh just to mention it... I was a programmer before I retired and if we had written a report that you had to run BEFORE you told it the parameters you wanted, they would have run us off the property. It is so strange to me that it is this way. It would make so much more sense to pick what subset of people or the whole file a report is being run for, what facts you want show, etc.