Chart Index

What Is a Chart Index?

Opening the Chart Index Window

The List of People

Searching for People in the Chart Index

Navigating to People in the Chart

Listing and Searching a Smaller Group of People

Selecting and Unselecting Boxes for People in the List

Sharing the List of People
- with your word processor
- as a PDF file
- with your printer

What Is a Chart Index?

The chart index is a window that floats above the chart editor and lists all or a focused group of the people in the chart. The chart index list behaves much like the People sidebar on Reunion's family view with some special features that will be useful in a graphical chart.

The chart index can be used to...

Opening the Chart Index Window

There are three ways to open the chart index window...

The List of People

The main part of the chart index window is an alphabetized list of people grouped by last name. When the chart index window is first opened, this list will contain every person in the chart.

The list will be sorted by last name, first name & birthdate. The last name will appear as a subtitle for each group of people with the same last name. If more than one person is in a last name group, the number of people listed will appear to the right of the last name.

People that appear more than once in a chart will have a blue menu button on the right side of their name row. Click on this menu button to see the different instances of this person on the chart.

Searching for People in the Chart Index

One easy way to find people in the Chart Index is to use the search box that appears just above the list of people. To do this...

The content of the list will change, depending on what you typed into the search box.

Navigating to People in the Chart

When you find the person that you’re looking for in the list of people, click on their name in the list. This will move that person’s chart box into view, in the chart editor window, and draw a red frame around the box for a couple of seconds. If you didn’t see the red frame, click on the person’s name in the list again and the red frame will appear around their chart box for another couple of seconds.

If the person you’re looking for appears in the chart more than once, there will be a blue menu button on the right side of that person’s row. Click on the menu button and a menu will list the different occurrences for that person in the chart. Select one of the occurrences from the menu and the person’s box will be moved into view and a red frame will be drawn around their chart box for a couple of seconds.

Listing and Searching a Smaller Group of People

The people listed in the chart index can be limited to just the people that appear in selected chart boxes. Click here for more information about selecting chart boxes.

To list only the people in selected chart boxes, check the Selected boxes only checkbox at the top of the chart index window.

When the Selected boxes only checkbox is checked, you can select a group of boxes in your chart, for example a branch of a descendant chart, and only the people that appear in those selected boxes will be listed in the people list. The search box can be used to focus the list of people in selected boxes even more.

Listing only selected boxes could be useful if you want to quickly see an alphabetized list of people in selected boxes as you select branches or click around on the different subcharts in an everybody chart.

Selecting and Unselecting Boxes for People in the List

The chart index window can be used to select or unselect chart boxes in the chart editor.

Once the search box has been used to focus the list of people, those boxes can be selected or unselected as follows...

Selecting listed boxes could be helpful if you want to apply a special attribute to all boxes with a specific last name.

Sharing the List of People

The list of people in the chart index window can be shared. This could be the complete list of people in the chart or a list that is more focused using the Selected boxes only checkbox and/or the search box.

An alphabetized printed list of the people in your chart can be a nice companion to a large graphical chart. This will help people find themselves and family members in a large chart, especially if the coordinate grid is drawn in the chart frame. Click here for more information about the coordinate grid.

There are several ways to share the list of people from the chart index window.


To share the list of people using your Word Processor follow these steps...

The list of people from the chart index will be formatted and opened in your word processor.


To share the list of people as a PDF file follow these steps...

The list of people from the chart index will be formatted, saved to a PDF file, and opened in the Preview app. The PDF file will be located in your Reunion Files / Reports folder.


To share the list of people to your printer follow these steps...