Let me say from the outset that I know nothing about MS WORD, being an OpenOffice,org User.
Having said that, it is my understanding that with WORD styles are applied to each section (or something like that). Open Office completely separates out the styles from the content, so that the styles can be applied globally to e.g. headers, main content footers etc. Which I would suggest is more in line with what you are looking for. The disadvantage is, of course, that there is quite a big learning curve. A general idea as to how it works is given on my website at http://www.fergys.co.uk/Blogs/AncBk.php The description is for an older version than that now available, but I do not think that there has been a big change. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Barbara Snow Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word Yes; I'm afraid my query is caused by my lack of sophistication in how to manipulate the data once it is in Microsoft Word. The footnotes will renumber, which is great, but when I add a footnote, I have to change the formatting to make them match... and I thought I could do this by creating and applying styles and removing contradictory styles. Sometimes it works, but sometimes not. I'm struggling, but unless someone tells me it can't be done, I think I'll put my efforts into trying to figure this out rather than having to retype everything from scratch. The problem is that when I write the final genealogy, I want the text and data to flow more smoothly than the output from Legacy; I want to be able to edit it. And of course I have much more data in my database than I want to include in the genealogy -- no one needs to see transcriptions of every census. One other possibility is to make copies of those portions of the database I want to write up and remove events I don't want included and do the best I can to create a sentence flow that is adequate. But it seems to me that it would be better by far to be able to edit within the Word document and that it should be possible. Do you have anyone on staff who could offer me advice on how to do that ? I'm at an age when I must acknowledge my mortality and need to get almost 40 years of research into writing and deposited where it will be available to future generations. When I entered all my data into a genealogy program, I hoped I would have the means to do that, but so far I've not been able to achieve acceptable output. I've certainly heard from all the writers that you can't create a genealogy from your software, but it seems to me that you should be able to. One reason I choose Legacy was because it had true footnotes; ones that would appear on the bottom of the page and renumber when a footnote was added or removed. That was the first essential element. Bobbie Snow Ann Arbor, Michigan Genealogy Classroom Website -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sherry/Support" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 2:47:28 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word You can save book reports to RTF (Rich Text Format), which readily opens in Word or any other word processing program. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Barbara Snow <[email protected]> wrote: I want to be able to dump my reports into a Microsoft Word document that I can edit . <snipped Has anyone accomplished this? Or determined that it is not possible? I welcome advice. Bobbie Snow Ann Arbor, Michigan 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
