I've tried the word processor route and it's sheer torture. I've tried changing Legacy's .pdf file to text and ends up looking like a dog's dinner.
Part of the problem is that I've entered all the censuses for everyone in the Events section with the name and date of the census in the blanks then in the text area, I've started off with the full title of the census again, bold and underlined, with details below that. Legacy repeats the name of the census twice, so all this needs to be edited out. Legacy also skews columns no matter how many times they're corrected,, so a list of ages of various members of a family in a census, for example, has to be fixed too. A word processor might work for 2-3 generations but any more than that will take ages. On top of that, the indexes then are completely wrong, and having to do 2-3 pages of double columns of names and locations with the correct page number isn't my idea of how to spend an enjoyable day - or month. Whenever I need a semi-respectable report, sorry to say, I load a rival program and use it instead. Helen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
