## Working with Views

Once you've opened a Gedcom file (*.ged) through Control Center you can open views on it.

Views all work on the same underlying data - this means that

- changes performed in one view immediately become effective in other views on the same file
- selection events from one view propagate to the other views on the same file*
- closing a file will close all views on that file
- context-menus for the displayed information offer actions in all views

*changes in selection to one view might not be reflected in another if the latter cannot follow the selection

Typically you will open one instance per type of view - not necessarily all but combinations that help to navigate and understand the underlying data. For example

- Tree&Table View to browse the existing information
- Table&Edit View to cleanup, catalog and edit the existing information
- Report View to run reports on large files

The combination is not limited and you'll soon get a feeling for which views fullfill your needs. The views will remember the position and size of the enclosing windows so position them as required and they will pop-up at the same place next time. You can also open several instances of the same view to check out different angles - they're numbered sequentially.

Here now is the list of views at your disposal:

> Table View
> Tree View
> Timeline View
> Edit View
> Report View
> Navigator View
> Entity View
> Search View
> Geo View

please follow the links for more information about the individual views