Comments on: Slowly Unveiling RootsMagic 4

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:17:47 +0000

My vote is for “Research”. Been the geek that I am, I copied the image into paint shop pro and applied some strong sharpening.. It’s still unreadable but the shames seem as though they might match up..

By: Steve Parker

Steve Parker — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:31:00 +0000

I hope the smudge is “Share”, “Search” or “Research”. Producing a Web 2.0-like experience where you can collaborate with other individuals and databases to improve your database. Allowing users to easily interact with the new FamilySearch website.

By: John James

John James — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:57:02 +0000

I am hoping the blurred out word is To-Do which opens up a list of outstanding to-do items and possibly other information like problems and outstanding research for the individuals or generations currently being displayed on screen.

If it’s not I hope Bruce takes in under consideration for the future.

By: Kevin Benson

Kevin Benson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:00:47 +0000

I noticed the vertical and horizontal scroll buttons on the right and at the bottom of the Descendants view, which leads me to believe that when the user switches the generations slider (with greater range of choices)…the presentational text onscreen no longer has to “size” down smaller (to fit a fixed width) and instead the amount of scrolling “travel” would merely increase, while the text size remains the same. Perhaps one can even adjust the presentational text sizes more flexibly.

BTW, my “guess” for the long thin bar with an arrow (on the far left) is that it brings up, for the highlighted person, that “full-blown edit screen…” with “…all the cool stuff” ( that Bruce mentions in his blogpost of the 17th

By: Laura Beeman

Laura Beeman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:04:16 +0000

Mike, thanks for the information.

I don’t have any MS Office products on my computer.

I just checked OpenOffice and tt also has the dots and the down pointing triangle.

I had just never noticed them before as I seldom use OpenOffice..

RootsMagic is the most used program on my computer and I have set the .rtf reports and text reports to open in Wordpad. instead of OpenOffice.

Laura

By: Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:55:20 +0000

Laura,

Open up any of the Microsoft Office products. The 3 dots are a handle, a place to click and drag the toolbar. It allows you to reposition it and usually detach it, placing it anywhere on the window.

The down pointing triangle is usually a toolbar customization menu.

By: Laura Beeman

Laura Beeman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:26:09 +0000

I think the button at the far right end of the icons on the toolbar may be an arrow that opens the customize and button style menu screen.

Also there is a vertical line of dots to the left of the first icon on the toolbar and to the left of tree icon on the top Menu row. If the row of dots have any function, I can’t guess what that may be.

I really can’t come up with what the blurred out word is. I would be surprised if the tab doesn’t open up a different type of entry screen for families.

Laura

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