Kathy, Using OpenOffice Writer the Contents and Indexes are preserved, in fact after corrections, additions etc. they print the new page numbers - providing one sets up the OOo parametrs correctly.
I understood that WORD preserves the Content but not the indexes, but as I have never used this program I am mainly going off reports I have read in this list. 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 ____________________________________________________ Kathy Meyer wrote: > 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
