Yes, it's possible. Or so I am assured by power-users of Word and WP. I suspect a college-level class might reveal their secrets, but I've no interest in paying that much for the knowledge.
Look at Alvy Ray's document -- might help. Based on my experiences, it will make an incredible difference to your work if you create a TO_PRINT database containing ONLY what you want included in the final output. It won't solve the footnote problem (and if you find something that DOES, please share), but it will cut down the amount of deleting you need to do. And, for new footnotes, cheat: include them in the text. Makes your life easier and ensures everyone reads 'em. The other approach involves doing copy'n'paste from the Legacy/whatever output into a newly created document. Cheryl Barbara Snow wrote: > 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 <http://barbsnow.net/classnotes.html> > 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] <mailto:[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
