Opening the Manual
Searching the Manual
Search Tips
Finding Text on a Page
Navigating the Manual Pages
Printing Portions of the Manual
Copying Text on a Page
Manual Font Size
Manual Conventions
This manual may be opened in three different ways...
Note: | This manual only contains pictures of buttons and menus. You should be looking here and simultaneously looking in the main Reunion window (with your family file). When the manual has a picture of a button or menu, or tells you to click a button or menu, bring the main Reunion window to the front and then look for the corresponding button or menu in the Reunion window, not here in the manual window. |
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To search the manual...
Reunion then finds all pages containing the search words, sorts them by relevance, and shows a Results page with a list of up to 25 "hits" in the form of abstracts with links. It behaves much like the Google search engine we all use, although faster and without advertisements.
Use Multiple Words
You can dramatically improve the search results by using at least two or three search words. Adding search words is the easiest way to focus your search quickly — in effect, adding search terms narrows your results.
For example, if you need help with adding a child, don't just look for "child." Look for "add child."
Reunion displays help pages that contain ALL the words in the search box. (This is the equivalent of a Boolean AND search.)
Don't Search for Generic Words
Don't search for words such as: and, or, of, a, what, etc.
Case Doesn't Matter
Searching in the manual is case-insensitive. Searching for "Adopted" or "adopted" is the same.
Broaden a Search
It isn't necessary to enter complete words, since Reunion will look for words that "start with" your search words. Here are some examples...
Keyword |
Matching Words |
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source |
source and sources |
del |
delete and deleting and delimiter |
child |
child and children |
fam |
family and families |
A Shortcut
One of Reunion's many letter key shortcuts includes typing ? and search words. For example, rather than first opening the manual window, just type ?leap year and press Return.
Once you arrive on a particular page in the manual, click the button (in the bottom bar) if you need to find a word on the current page.
Or, choose
or press Command+F.
Use the and buttons, just as you would in your web browser, to navigate between manual pages. Or use the shortcuts...
The button takes you back to the manual Contents page. You can also choose
The button, in the bottom bar, will show a list of recent pages you've visited in the manual, including search results pages.
The button, in the bottom bar, will scroll the current manual page to the top.
For quick access to key pages in the manual, use the button on the manual toolbar.
Using the Topic List
The list of topics at the top of most pages will contain a dividing dash. The topics above the dash are on the current "page" of the manual, whereas topics below the dash take you to a different page.
To print the current section of the manual (that is, the entire page when scrolled up and down), choose
.Note: There is no PDF version of the manual available.
On any manual page, you can click and drag to select text. When text is selected, you can choose
(or press Command-C) to copy selected text to the Macintosh Clipboard.By default, the manual uses the Lucida Grande font, size 12. To experiment with different font sizes in the manual, choose
or .
His or Her |
To avoid the clumsiness of phrases like "his or her" and "he or she," this manual usually picks one gender or the other, pretty much at random. |
Menu Commands |
Menu items from the top of the screen are referred to as follows:
For example, if the user's guide tells you to choose , it means you should select Open from the File menu. Menu choices from pop-up menus also appear in . |
Button Names |
Names of buttons appear in this color: |