This is what I do when I am transcribing wills. I open the will (old English ones in my case) in a window at the top of the screen, and scoll through it so that the line I'm working on is at the bottom of the image. Then I open Word in a window below that and start typing my transcription. It works really well. I also have done it with websites where I have copied some information into Word and need to edit it. You can have both open and available at the same time. It does help to have a large screen monitor, but I even used to do this with my now geriatric Mac Classic. Cheers, Robyn > Bill you can have a "split screen", just by resizing the screens of the > programs you wish to view. You can place them side by side or one on top > of the other or even divide the screen in quarters if you have four you > wish to use. Some programs will let you open two databases in separate > screens and you can switch from one screen to the other to make them > active. It is just a case of experimenting. And much cheaper than having > two monitors :-). > > -----Original Message----- > From: bhoudek [mailto:bhoudek@swbell.net] > Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:29 > To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Dual Monitors revisited > > Thanks, folks for the comments. > > Was hoping an alternative might be to do split-screen with two separate > programs at the same time. > > Recall some 20+ years ago seeing a demonstration of split screen usage. > Not > at that time knowing how to turn a computer on, it looked great but had > no > clue as to how to run it. > > I just recently discovered how to produce an e-mail using only 1/2 > screen > superimposed over, say, Legacy and that works great. > > Am running Win xp home & 312 ram with Pentium 111. > > Any thoughts here save forking over bunches of cash? > > Thanks again, > > Bill Houdek > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0433-2, 2004-08-10 > Tested on: 12/08/2004 2:11:16 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > > ==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== > DO NOT open unexpected file attachments from people, even if you know them. Verify with the sender first. This may be your only line of defence, other than AV Software, against mail "viruses" > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >