Did you know that you can click with the right mouse button in many places in Legacy for a menu of the currently available options?
For example, right-clicking on anyone in Family View, or Pedigree View, or Descendant View, or Index View pops up menus with lists of useful options and actions to choose from. Right-clicking on the backgrounds in Legacy Home, Family View, and other Views pops up similar menus. Right-click on just about anything in Legacy and see what the possibilities are. They are too numerous to list here.
Here’s a clever idea: In just about any text field in Legacy, right-clicking is great for quick Cut, Copy or Paste. Simply highlight the text, then right-click on it and select either Cut or Copy from the pop up menu. Next go to the place where you want to insert it and right-click again. This time choose Paste from the pop up menu. Slick!
More recently I found that if I left click on File and select Open Family File and then right-click in the large white box where files are listed, pops up menus also appear. Right-clicking in the white background gives menu options to Paste, etc. Right-clicking on a file listed here pops up a menu with Cut, Copy, Send To, and more. Pointing at Send To opens a submenu with the choices for Compressed (zipped) Folder, Mail Recipient, my writable CD drive, my flash drive, etc. Can you see the possibilities? Wow!
For example, Send To > Mail Recipient allows me to effortlessly attach a file to an e-mail message. Here’s how it works: I create a PDF file in the My Documents folder. When completed, I start to create another PDF file in the same folder, but this time in the Save PDF File screen I find the file I just created. Next I right-click on it and select Send To > Mail Recipient. I immediately get an e-mail screen with my PDF file neatly attached. All that I need to do is modify the message, then fill in the recipient’s e-mail address and click Send. Quick! Easy! Painless! All that’s left to do is cancel the PDF file screen.
Thanks to Jim Terry for this news article.
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