Thank you Cathy. If you use the first option: Let Legacy Decide it imports without the lost spacing between words in the notes section.
Flora On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Flora, > > When you are doing the import, note there is a Customise button. Click > this and you get several options for importing note fields depending on how > the note is in the gedcom. You might want to look at the gedcom in a text > editor to see how the lines are broken - or just experiment with each > option. > > There are 3 options: > Let Legacy decide > Lines are broken in the middle of words > Lines are broken between words > > Clicking the Help button from that screen gives further information. > > Cheers, > Cathy > . > Flora wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I imported a Ged Com file from FTM file into Legacy 7.5 . For some > > reason the text in the notes section is not importing correctly. In > > every note section I have checked you find text where the spacing > > between random words is gone, and there are a lot of these instances > > in each page of notes. In other words you will see: > > > > the lazydog is lying under a hugetree. > > > > I did what was suggested (8/27/07) by Leon Chapman on this forum and > > > imported the file selecting the following as instructed: > > > > 1. Main Legacy GEDCOM import screen - Check "Rewordwrap note fields" > > > > UnderCustomize button, lower left go to Items to import screen: > > > > A. Check "Lines are broken in middle of words" > > > > When I found the problem I tried imported the file again without > > checking Rewordwrap, and it made no difference. The spacing between > > words is still not correct in my notes. > > > > Does anybody have a suggestion on how to fix this problem? I have a > > huge file and it is going to be a major problem to go through all the > > notes and correct spacing between the words. > > > > I am importing Ged Com files from FTM 2012-Version 21.0.723, but I > > also tried the import with a Ged Com file generated from FTM 2005 with > > the very same results. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Flora 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
