Saving as an RTF worked very well; it opened in Word perfectly and I can edit it as needed. The Table of Contents did not transfer but it gave me a little note explaining about that. No big deal since with changes I make, the pagination will change.
I am still trying to figure out how to eliminate the blank lines in the report though; I did try looking at the upper left in "options" on the report but am not seeing anything there. I feel so dumb; I really feel like I've seen it before and purposely marked it to show the lines but for this purpose I don't want them and would rather not delete them all in Word. I actually don't think this process is too bad at all; The RTF options is great. Kathy On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > [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 > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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
