Comments on: RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped – What’s Another Word for Spel Chek?

By: Gale D Stroud

Gale D Stroud — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:03:01 +0000

Have been with you since PAF (dos); stayed with FOW 10 until the light was turned on again (to my delight); will stay with you as long as boys and girls keep the party going.. Can’t say enough about RootMagic. Thanks for coming back; you made a lot of folks very happy..!!

By: Glen Bodie

Glen Bodie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:20:02 +0000

On 1 Feb '08 on the forum I posted 6 suggestions to improve Spell Check. Some of them got some support in response postings. I don't see those in your current plans unless I'm missing something. Here's the link to the post http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5325

By: Jim Belanger

Jim Belanger — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:47:20 +0000

I certainly hope turning off the Spell Check (for those of us using a lot of non-English words) does not turn off the Auto-Correct feature which is certainly a welcome feature! I don’t see a feature to optionally insert record number into reference number – PLEASE!

By: Ruth Myers

Ruth Myers — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:49:45 +0000

The “sneak peeks” are like tearing open a corner of the gift wrapping! Childhood flashback? I guess the big peeks will be the big peaks!

My hope is there will be an EASY way to separate out a specific family line from the database- such as when making a shareable CD. That has always been a challenge for ME.

And, (as long as I’m on the subject!) it would be nice to be able to arrange the items in the individual’s edit screen, if we so choose.

But, whatever, v4 will certainly be GREAT!

By: Candy

Candy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:42:06 +0000

With all of these ‘teasers’ that Bruce is giving, I think RM 4 is going to be loaded with all kinds of tracking items, not to mention the data entry changes. I can’t wait until we get the rest of the ‘teasers’ and the finished program!!

By: Jim Andreasen

Jim Andreasen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:25:26 +0000

Spel chek — looks like someone worked for Word Perfect at some time. WP is still the greatest word process. (I was going to say the “only true and living…”

How much is the upgrade going to cost us long-time Roots Magic users?

By: Paul Bootes

Paul Bootes — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:04:40 +0000

How will RM4 integrate with your other products Family Atlas and Personal Historian? Will the thesaurus and user dictionary and/or gazetteer be seemless across all three products? There seems to be some overlaps developing here. Oh, and are there developments coming on these other products as well.
Nevermind the when – what’s the pricing structure going to be?
Best wishes, Paul.

By: Bruce Buzbee

Bruce Buzbee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:09:56 +0000

Kevin, one of each.

By: John James

John James — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:38 +0000

Jerry, I work in the way you describe now with RM3 and I don’t want to lose that functionality in RM4.

I have the RM program folder and a mirror of my data folder(s) d:\my docs\genealogy\data files\etc etc on my USB pen (or thumb drive depending on which side of the Atlantic you are on). I can plug this into any computer that has USB compatibility and run RM away from home (at work, records library etc), I believe it is called U3 compatibility. To view my image files etc I need to make one small change to multimedia filenames through Search & Replace, replacing d:\ (my desktop directory) with e:\ (or whatever the USB drive has been recognised as)

This works perfectly for me allowing me full functionality of RM while away from home, almost like “RM in your Pocket” (no copyright on that one Bruce (~:)

The only thing I need to make sure of is that I drag the my docs\genealogy folder back and overwrite the desktop files to reflect my changes. If Sharemerge gets beefed up and improved in RM4 that will open other possibilities for me to keep the data sync’d but I don’t want to lose the option of being able to work from the mobile device, improving it would be great.

John James
Ireland

By: Sharon Fulton

Sharon Fulton — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:25:08 +0000

AS a great-granny who has had two minor strokes and trouble yping now;I am very happy to see many of the new spell check, mine will really be kept busy! I prefer to think of that as Granny user friendly! I need all the help I can get now on the computer and various programs. Now if Microsoft would jut get rid of Vista and get a Granny-Friendly OS!!

I also have multiple home computers net-worked and am constantly forgetting which data I have entered into RM in each one to keep all of them updated.

I know now that RM is NOT MAC compatible but is there ANY way that you could strike some sort of deal with them? I am so upset with MS Vista that I am seriously considering switching to an IMac. Any thoughts on that? Or suggestions?

I rather like these sneak peaks! All good things are worth waiting for!!