Choose Open from the File menu, then click Browse to find the file, and click OK to load the file into the program. Then from the File menu, choose either View, to enter View mode, or Edit, to enter Edit mode. You can easily switch between View and Edit modes using the buttons on the toolbar.
The program displays most, but not all, of the information which a gedcom file can contain. Any other data in the file will almost always be preserved, but cannot be edited. Where multiple notes fields appear within a single logical record, only the first sequence will be displayed.
The GEDCOM standard provides for notes to be continued on to additional lines using the tags CONT (continue) or CONC (concatenate). The latter instructs that lines be concatenated, allowing them to be broken in mid word. Use of this tag requires that any space between words at the end of one line and the beginning of the next must be provided in the gedcom file which you are editing. If this is not the case, the two words will be merged together when displayed.
When you have finished editing the file, choose either Save or Save As from the File menu, or click Save on the toolbar, to save the file to disk. The program will automatically create a backup copy of the original file. The information in the file which was not displayed by the program or not edited will be preserved unchanged.