Reunion User Group
of the San Diego Genealogical Society
Tues., July 1, 2025,
12pm, on Zoom
12pm, on Zoom
Multimedia Part 2
Anne will yet again come up with insights into effective use of Reunion. Her choice this month, is part two of Reunion Multimedia. There is much to be learned as Anne will explain very clearly.
This is your meeting, your time to shine. Bring questions, projects and complaints! We will crowd-source answers to all items you bring up. We will also have rapt attention to your topics as we LOVE Reunion 14.
Tip: There most recent update (June 2024) is "14.0: (Build 25620)". Click "Reunion", then "About Reunion" to see which version/build you have.
It's recommended that you upgrade to the latest version of Reunion (14) and join us.
We usually start each session with questions from last month’s topic before diving into this month's talk.
Often a mixed format is adopted which incorporates a formal presentation, demonstration of the use of Reunion, and a problem solving session where individualized help is provided
To register for this event, go to the SDGS Website Calendar. This event will be open to the first 100 people.
Communicate with the author of this website.
Help from ChatGPT
- Your Reunion Guide (requires a paid OpenAI account to use)
- U.S. Census Questions
The Reunion app's Help is second to none. Far better than paper manuals.
- Help | Contents will let you survey all topics, and choose what to learn
- Help | Search will often get you directly to the topic you want
- Question Mark | When using Reunion, pressing the lower left-hand corner's question mark, which will reveal context-sensitive help that often answers your question.
- At any point, Press CMD ? and view Reunion's Context sensitive help. Wherever you are in Reunion, the help menu will display choices based on what you're doing.
Some recently mentioned URLs:
- Huntstand - Show Property Lines
- Parcel Maps
- Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
CUSTOM ICONS ON FOLDERS
Anne put this document together with illustrations to show how you can make Customized Folder Icons On Your Desktop (March, 2023.)
PREFERENCES - CMD , (CMD Comma) brings up Reunion Preferences. Also commonly used in other apps to activate settings. Try it.
EMOJIS - Accessing them is as simple as pressing CTRL CMD SPACEBAR. You should position your cursor where you want the emoji to go, beforehand, then when you double-click to select the emoji, it will automatically be inserted in your text.
ISLANDS - Islands on the right sidebar are sequenced by size, largest first.
REUNIONTALK - The forum for Reunion users from the authors of Reunion. Register if you need to ask questions or reply to posts. https://www.reuniontalk.com/
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
"Husband or Wife Notes" While viewing the Family Card, type in "HN" and RETURN for Husband's Reunion Notes or "WN" and RETURN for Wife's Reunion Notes.
List Window
When viewing the List Window, you may alternately mark or unmark everyone displayed by clicking on the little green check mark in the upper left hand corner.
Editing an Event
CMD R - Paste most recent source
CMD C, V - Copy/Paste event including any sources. Also copy/paste any source
Editing a Chart
Use the Tree | Orientation, menu option to create different variations of your tree
F I N D E R
Moving Files To move one or more files you can just click/drag to a destination folder. But, did you know if you select some files and press "CMD C", then, navigate to where you want to move the files and press "OPT CMD V" it will move the files, not just copy them.
Save As Apple did away with the Save As function in Finder. However, if before saving a file you press the OPTION key the "SAVE AS" menu option will replace the "SAVE" option giving you much more flexibility when saving files.
Creating an Alias on Desktop
Hold down OPT and CMD whilst click/dragging a file to the desktop and an Alias to that same file will be created.
Use CMD UP ARROW to navigate upwards in the Finder file structure. (Also CMD DOWN ARROW, RIGHT ARROW AND LEFT ARROW navigation. Experiment with it!).
Other one-key commands whilst holding down the CMD key are:
F Find
G Find again
Editing Text - CMD Keys
C Copy
V Paste
X Cut (and copy)
P Print
Q Quit
Z Undo
Within REUNION
Family View - CMD Keys
S Popup: Sources Window
T Enter the Tree View
Q Quit
Z Undo
PLUS KEY Make Text Larger
MINUS KEY Make Text Smaller
Reunion Family View - Event commands followed by [ENTER]
HE - Husband Event
WE - Wife Event
M - Marriage Event