Hi Ron, The reason I have to do the copy/paste is that I have a great deal of 'extra' information that must be inserted into the family story such as memories from my living family, LOTS of newspaper articles, obituaries, historical information about the places they lived, etc.
If I just enter these things into Legacy as Events and then save it as an .rtf file in Legacy, it just shows up as long lists of Events for each person separately, with way too much repetition. I want these things to show up as a 'chronological family story' so that they are not repeated for each person. Elizabeth =================================================== On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote: > Elizabeth, > > There are people on this list who have created much more comprehensive > books > than I, so I am going to leave that detail to them. But, why do you keep > saying "copy/paste rtf .files". Legacy will let you save in that format - > see the options usually on the bottom right of the report page? > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: elizabeth > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] book production > > list who have actually created family books, using Legacy features, since I > haven't quite figured it out yet......... > > How did they enter their info into Legacy in such a way that it was quick > and easy to copy/paste into a .rtf file? > > > Elizabeth > ================================================ > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> > wrote: > Elizabeth, > > The thing to remember is that Legacy is a program for the storage and > retrieval of data, and has some options for the production of reports. It > is > *not* a word processor, and in my opinion hopefully never will be. > > To do as you wish you really do need to be looking at word processors such > as Word or the free OpenOffice.org and Libre Office. You can save your > Legacy data as a .rtf file and upload into any of these, which have the > capacity for editing as you suggest. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: elizabeth > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report for Family Reuion > > Syble, and group, > > I am also trying to create a book for my family and understand exactly what > you are saying. There is ssoooooooo much repetition of information such as > Events and Census data!!! > > I want my book to be more of a 'biographical sketch of each family', tying > the whole family together rather than a long list of facts (Events, etc) > but > I have not figured out how this can be done. > > I have "lots and lots" of newspaper articles, obituaries, family stories, > etc that I want included as part of the narrative, not entered as a long > list of Events. And I want the census data to be for the whole family, not > each person separately. > > Surely there must be folks on this list who have created narrative books > for > their families who might be able to help us........I hope so. > > Elizabeth > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3910 - Release Date: 09/21/11 > > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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