Comments on: RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped – The New Edit Screen

By: Geir A. Myrestrand

Geir A. Myrestrand — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:06:48 +0000

I would have preferred the sex selection to be a radio button group. It would be quicker to just do one click with the mouse to choose…

By: crubinace

crubinace — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:00:47 +0000

So far its sounds very good to me. I live in Bulgaria, so it would be great if it has a UK version, able to download and manual to download, that would make my Christmas great.

By: Stafford-Ames Morse

Stafford-Ames Morse — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:46 +0000

Just got home from the Ames Convention in NH and Morse Convention in VT.. We have all 10 of our reserch staff ready to go when the new 4.0 comes out. Hope by year’s end so we can put the cost into our 2008 budget year. Trust a book comes with it. It makes teaching and having our master record looking like only one was working on it. Since Family Orgins, we ae now up to 230,000 Morse and not lost an entry.

By: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:23:05 +0000

Vic, Yes.

By: Vic Ockmore

Vic Ockmore — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:27:44 +0000

Version 4 is looking good!

Will there be a UK version 4 released around the same time?

By: John James

John James — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:04:11 +0000

I would also love to have had a pdf version of the book on my desktop for easy reference and searching but I assume there is profit in the books and pdf files floating around the internet would negate that.

The reverse thinking about that is freely available books for people to read can only promote more interest in the core product and therefore stimulate more sales in something which has a fixed development cost but virtually no further production costs once it is released except for the cost of a CD..

Never done the research on it but I know I have purchased other software AFTER reading the manual and discovering the full capabilities.

I would want book and pdf since I can’t read a pdf file in bed or on the beach……

By: Paul Bueide

Paul Bueide — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:44:55 +0000

If there is going to be an updated book for RM4 it sure would be nice to order it and be able to download a PDF version of it. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

By: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:31:50 +0000

Penny,
Yes, there will be an updated book to go with RootsMagic 4.

By: Penny Holt

Penny Holt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:59:40 +0000

So far I have not seen a change that I didn’t think was good, and this one certainly is. But there are a lot of changes. With RM3 I use the manual, Getting the Most out of RootsMagic, frequently. Will there be a manual to replace it, please?

By: Romer

Romer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:20:20 +0000

gmomhpa,

I believe the the last edited date is an internal field, so can’t be changed via a screen. It’s just stored and updated when OK is clicked when editing a particular person.

You can find last edit date in the title bar on the Edit Person screen.

Within RootsMagic Explorer, it also appears in the upper right portion of the screen. If you then click on the Find button, the field can be selected as a field to search.

I believe that the field can also be selected via various reports.