[email protected] wrote: > 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 >
Helen, I do not understand why you are saving to a PDF before you convert to text and put it in a wordprocessor. Simply save as an RTF. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ 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
