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To make Click on the currently selected spouse underlined name of the Active Person, click the double-arrow button person you want to go to the right of the Active Person box. Alternatively, right-click into the spouse box and select {{man label|Make the selected spouse an Active Person}} item from the context menu. To make the currently selected parents the active family (thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse), click the right-arrow button to the right of the active this person's parents box. Alternatively, right-click into will be the new active person's parents box and select {{man label|Make the selected parents the active family}} item from the context menu. To make the currently selected spouse's parents the active family (thereby making father the Active Person and mother the selected spouse), click the right-arrow button to the right of the spouse's parents box. Alternatively, right-click into the spouse's parents box and select {{man label|Make the selected parents the active family}} item from the context menuRelationships Category.
To make The name of the currently selected child the Active Person, click the left-arrow button to the right of the children box. Alternatively, right-click into the children box and select {{man label|Make the selected child an Active Person}} item from the context menuactive person is not underlined.
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The Clipboard can be accessed with Selecting a record using the the Keyboard shortcut context menu (accelerator keyright click) will show the following three options for each record type: * See the [RECORD TYPE] details* Make the [RECORD TYPE] active* Create Filter from the [RECORD TYPE] selected [[File:Clipboard-example-right-click-menu-41.png|thumb|right|400px|Fig. {{#var:chapter}}.{{man key press#vardefineecho:figure|CTRL|B{{#expr:{{#var:figure}}+1}}}} Context menu (right click) for the Clipboard]] {{-}}.
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When in the [[Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Relationships Category|Relationships Category]], you can easily navigate between the members of the displayed family as follows:
In addition to this, Gramps provides an extensive set of keyboard navigation options. The detailed reference to the key bindings is found in the [[Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Keybindings|Appendix B: Keybindings reference]].
== Using the Families Category ==
== Using the Charts Category ==
This tool provides a temporary note pad to store database records for easy reuse. In short, this is a sort of the copy-and-paste functionality extended from textual objects to other types of records used in Gramps.
The Clipboard can be accessed with the Keyboard shortcut (accelerator key) {{man key press|CTRL|B}}.
{{man tip|1=Clipboard makes extensive use of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag-and-drop ''drag and drop''] technique|2=To invoke Clipboard, either choose the menu {{man menu|Edit->Clipboard}} or click the Toolbar {{man button|Clipboard}} button.}}
{{man tip|Tip|Some objects are showing the link icon on the left. This indicates that dragging such selection will produce a reference to an existing object, not copy the object itself. For example, the media object file will not be duplicated. Instead, the reference will be made to an existing media object, which will result in the local gallery entry.}}
For an application like Gramps the Clipboard is very important.