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Creating Your Reports. Many users don’t realize that they can create many reports of a single type. Often users will make a List of People report definition to set a flag. Then they need to generate a List of People to create a new dataset. So they modify the report they had for setting flags to do what they want for creating a new dataset. Then later they want to run the first report again and have to re-create it.

There is no need to do this and TMG will allow you to have many reports of any one type. I even have multiple report definitions that are almost the same with the difference being that one prints to the screen and the other prints to a file. I have one Genealogy report definition that I use for creating a report for one family and others for different family members. Some report definitions are used to create short reports to include in an e-mail to someone telling quickly what I have on a particular line. These doesn’t contain much, are not indexed or contain citations and generally are used to see if there might be a match between my family and the correspondant’ family. Then if there is a match, I can send much more detailed information to my new correspondant.

So instead of modifying some report, consider creating another report definition with a different name. You can start from scratch with a brand new report definition or you can make a copy of a report definition that you already have and modify it to the new definition. Either way, you can increase the utility of TMG the way you want it.

Screen Views. Did you know that you can change the System Configuration Screen to turn off the screen tabs (Person View/Family View/Tree View)? This will give you more room on the screen for the tag box, etc. While this does away with the ability to switch views quickly using the mouse, you can still quickly swap views using the hot-keys (Control-P, Control-F and Control-T) or via the View menu at the top of the screen.

Other ways of switching views remain available, such as Last View, and up to ten bookmarks. Bookmarks allow you to go to
a specific view and person through the use of a hot-key.

Since many users want to customize TMG in different ways for different datasets, you can now change System Configurations by backing up and restoring each different configuration desired.

Note that while you can modify the English language itself, you can edit and modify the Alternate "language" by substituting different English words (or spellings) for those used by TMG.

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