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The Canvas Controls

The bar along the bottom of the screen is the Canvas Controls. It

changes how the chart is displayed on your screen — it does not

change the layout or what prints.

From here you can:

  • Zoom in and out (− / +), or snap to Fit or 1:1.
  • Width fits the chart to the window width.
  • Overlays lays a temporary, screen-only tint over the TreeLine — by

    Branch, Generation, Separation, Role, Lineage or Sibling set — or shows

    Attention indicators beside the bars. Choose None to see the

    TreeLine's own colours. Overlays never print.
  • Find searches for a person by name.
  • The ··· menu holds extra screen aids, including Edit borders

    for dragging the page edge.

Think of it as a working overlay: everything here is for looking at the

chart while you work. Turn on Presentation mode (in ···) to preview

exactly what will print.

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Related

The Right-Click Menu

**Right-click** is where you **shape the tree**. **Right-click a person** (or a selection of people) for actions on *those* people: - **Show/Hide** — hide people, a branch or relatives, and reveal them again. - **Data** — edit the person, or add a relative or an event. - **Select** — add relatives to the selection: siblings, a whole branch and more. - **Create new…** — make a new TreeLine from the people you choose. - **Arrange** — open Layout › Arrange, grow a branch up or down, and other moves. - **Move type** — what Up and Down do for this person. - **Bar style** — full bar, thin line, stub, or a group of children. **Right-click the timeline** for its position, scale and granularity, and **right-click empty canvas** for choices about the whole chart. Unlike the Canvas Controls, these changes *do* affect the layout and the printed result. Hiding never deletes anyone: hidden people stay in your family and can be shown again.

The Pane Buttons

The **icon rail** down the side of the screen opens the **panes** — each one a focused set of controls. Click an icon to open a pane; click it again to close. The panes include: - **TreeLine Settings** — the searchable settings for this TreeLine: layout, style, labels, and **Paper and printing** (paper size, orientation, sheets and borders). - **Arrange** — move the people you select up or down, and put brothers and sisters in order. - **People** — a searchable list of everyone, with their Events. - **Person** — the selected person's details, parents, relationships and events. - **Images** and **Maps** — photographs, and the places in your family's story. - **Recipe** — the steps that arranged this TreeLine, one by one. - **History** — view or restore an earlier design. - **TreeLine Info** — what this TreeLine is and who can see it. - **Help** — these guides; **Feedback** — tell us what works and what does not. Panes are where you go to **change settings and review** the tree, a topic at a time. Open one, make your changes, and close it again.