Hi Brian, I have been following this tread and trying a few things to see if there may be a work around since there is no way, at present, within Legacy to create the document page or pages relating to the research into a family file.
I would suggest starting a word document, list everything you wish to include, wording it to suit your desired outcome. Name your document and save it in C:\Legacy. Now as you locate new information and wish to include it all you need to do is edit the stored document. When you wish to create a book report with this document information included just go to the Start Button on your computer click My Computer>C:\Legacy>folder (where you stored the document) highlight the stored text, click copy. Go to the Individual that you wish to be the starting person in the report. Click Reports>Publishing Centre>Special Text Entry>Add>Enter a Title, in the box below the title paste the document data>save. Select the type of report you want in the book, (I selected Descendant report)>Add. Make sure that the Special Text Entry is at the top of the list. Now click View before you print and see if this is what you want. This will create a few extra steps but until Legacy adds a new feature to its program this may help. Leo > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] User's Remarks > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:59:40 -0700 > > Thanks, Jenny. You are entirely correct in what I was asking about I a text > section that is a permanent part of the family file. Consider it akin to the > "Preface" of a book. I hesitate to use the word book here because it may lead > to the idea of the Book Report presented by Ron Ferguson which as you stated > is really a one-time report without the capability of the text being entered > on those blank pages to be stored as part of the family file. > > And I'm curious --- you said it has been discussed here before. I've been > hanging out for several years and I guess I missed it. I assume that the > final resolution is that it remains on the wish list. And my non-scientific, > limited programming experienced brain tells me that the programmers would > have difficulty in creating a note in a database without being assigned to a > specific record or user ID. But wait a minute, don't they do that now with > the compiler information? Or is that info being pulled in from a small .txt > or .usr file? Maybe that text size allocation of the compiler's notes needs > to be greatly enlarged. Seems simple enough and that seems to be a logical > location for such info. Oh well. I wonder if other programs allow for such > prefaced text in the database? > > Brian in California > The rain is over; the grass is ris; I wonder where all the flowers is > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 6:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] User's Remarks > > On 01/04/2013 08:50, Ron Ferguson wrote: > > If you go to Reports/Publishing Centre and then look under the > > Additional tab you will see a number of options which leave vacant > > pages to allow additional pages to be inserted. > > But that information still has to be stored (or created) somewhere and what > Brian's friend was looking for was somewhere *within Legacy* to create and > store general Notes relating to the entire file. This - the lack of such and > the wish for it - has been discussed here before. > > I don't know whether something could be done with creating an unattached > "person" and putting the information in the General Notes field of that > record. > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > 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 > > 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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