You may want to review this link regarding writing tools for genealogists. It may provide some tools in this regard:
http://genealogy.about.com/od/writing_family_history/tp/writing-tools.htm On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? 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