Working With People

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• Adding people
• Editing a person
• Arranging spouses
• Arranging children
• Swapping husband and wife
• Unlinking people
• Deleting people
• Searching for people
• Groups
• Color coding people
• Set relationships
• WebHints
• Set living

Fact "live-edit" pane

Below is a typical live-edit pane for a fact – occupation in this case. At the top are the fields and check boxes associated with the fact.

Three things to note are the Place Details field to put the name of a facility or an address, the Proof field, and the sort date field with date modifiers. The date, place and description fields may or may not be present in all fact panes, since inclusion of these fields is optional.

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Below the fact fields are three fact details buttons – Note, Sources, and Share – that relate to the fact highlighted at the left. Clicking on one of these details button will let you add a fact note, add sources of the fact information, or share the fact with other people.

At the bottom of the pane is a preview of the sentence for this fact. Above this preview is a button, Customize, that will open a dialog to let you customize the sentence locally without having to change the global fact type sentence template.