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With Family Tree Detective, you can emphasize the relationship between
any two individuals in your tree.
Emphasizing a Relationship
To emphasize the relationship between two people:
- Right click your mouse on the tree, then select Box, Line, &
Border Styles.
- Click the Lines tab.
Family Tree Detective displays the Styles for Family Tree dialog
box.
Figure 1: Styles for Family Tree dialog box
- Select the Highlight the relationship between check box to
emphasize the relationship between two individuals in your tree.
- Click the Change buttons to display the Change Individual dialog
box and select the two individuals whose relationship you want to emphasize.
- Click the Line Color drop-down list to select the color used
to emphasize the relationship specified in step 4.
- When you're finished, click OK to return to the tree.
Why is there a break in the line that highlights the relationship?
Family Tree Detective can highlight the relationship between any two
individuals in your Family Tree. In some cases, you may notice a break in
the line connecting two people. This break occurs because the line travels
through an unrelated spouse. Because Family Tree Detective emphasizes only
the direct relationship, it does not highlight the line to and from
the unrelated spouse.
Why do some people have boxes with dashed lines and others have solid
lines?
This is related to Family Tree Detective's ability to show non-natural
relationships. There are two instances where a box appears with dashed lines.
The first is when a person has a non-natural relationship with his parents;
the second is when the person has two sets of parents, one natural and one
non-natural. If you don't want to differentiate these relationships with
dotted lines, you can turn off this feature in the Tree Styles dialog box.
To use solid lines when displaying non-natural parent/child relationships:
- Right click your mouse on the tree, then select Box, Line, &
Border Styles.
- Click the Lines tab.
- Click the Show non-natural parent/child relationships with dashed
lines option to disable it.
- Click OK to accept the changes and return to the tree.
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