Sidebar Display Settings

What Is the Sidebar Display Settings Window?

Using the Sidebar Display Settings

Grouping Surnames In the People Sidebar

What Is the Sidebar Display Settings Window?

The Sidebar Display Settings are a few options that enable more information for people and families to be displayed in sidebar lists.

The Sidebar Display Settings are available for the People, Advanced Find Results, Relatives, Bookmarks, Calendar, Reminders, and Couples sidebars.

Space for more information is made available by selecting from several different row heights. The preferred picture can optionally be included and the mark button can be located on the right or left side of the row.

Using the Sidebar Display Settings

To modify the display settings for the sidebar, click on the Sidebar Display Settings button (two tiny radio buttons) at the bottom of the sidebar.

The Sidebar Display Options window will appear. There are four options for row height: single line, short, medium, and tall. See the examples at the top of this page.

Taller rows allow for more information to be displayed.

Note that one drawback of taller rows is that the number of people that can be viewed at one time in a list is reduced and scrolling will be required to see more list entries.

An optional preferred picture can be displayed for taller rows by checking the Preferred pictures checkbox.

By default, the mark button (the green checkmark) will be displayed on the left side of each row. For taller rows, check the Mark button on the right button to place the mark button on the right side of the row, similar to the person buttons on the family view.

Sidebar Display Settings are not global. Setting selections for the People sidebar are only for the People sidebar and will not apply to the settings for other sidebars.

Additionally, setting selections made for one Bookmarks Set will apply only to that set. Each Bookmarks Set has its own display settings.

Grouping Surnames In the People Sidebar

The People sidebar has a Group Surnames checkbox in the Sidebar Display Settings window. Use this checkbox to turn surname grouping on or off in the People list.