Hi Priscilla,
I have kept up with FTM to v2011 in order to help a friend that hasn't switched to Legacy. We haven't upgraded to v2014 as, I remember, there were some 'issues' that people were concerned about. I am so glad I made the switch to Legacy and I hope you have the same experience. The LUG list is also a very active list with many talented people willing to help. Back to the notes... if your file is quite large you might try a much smaller test file, with notes, as you try the methods Sherry has outlined. Once you are satisfied that the file has been satisfactorily imported to Legacy then you can do the same on the main file. That could speed things up a little. Good luck. Bob From: Stu and Priscilla Fanning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 2:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014 Thanks, Bob. I have already started out with your method of just fixing things as I found them. I had not thought of copying to Word though and fixing the notes that way. Good idea. Thanks! After my first comment, way at the bottom of this e-mail, Sherry gave me hope that there was another, less tedious, way to fix all of the word issues in the notes at one time, so I thought I would like to try that. As for the answer from Sherry under 'SOLUTION', I had no clue how to do that. I see from your answer that I need to change the method BEFORE I import a GEDCOM. I had looked for how to change the method now that I have imported the GEDCOM and could not find anything. I have only been using Legacy for a few months and have not added much because I am really still quite lost in how to make it work. Therefore, it will not be too difficult for me to go back and import the GEDCOM again. I appreciate this group which tries to help each other with problems that they come up against. Priscilla From: Bob Austen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 1:43 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014 Hi Priscilla, Sherry gave a very good answer under 'SOLUTION' below. Perhaps you have already moved your file to Legacy and now have discovered the 'broken words' in the notes. If this is the case you can start over using Sherry's suggestions. If you are already using the file in Legacy and do not want to start over with the import then you will have to live with the spaces in the words. I wasn't aware of the spaces when I made the move to Legacy. So now I just edit the notes as I come across them, scanning through and deleting those spaces. If a particular note is very lengthy then I have copied it to Word where the spell check will highlight the errors making it easier to find those pesky spaces. Editing the gedcom is probably not a viable option. Bob From: Stu and Priscilla Fanning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 6:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014 I thought I would send this again since I have not received any answers. I would appreciate anyone's information on the subject -- getting rid of the spaces within words in the notes sections when I move my family tree from Family Tree Maker 2006 to Legacy 8. -- do I need to start over with the GEDCOM or do I start with where I am in Legacy? Either way, how do I tell Legacy to make the words with the correct spacing? Thanks, Priscilla From: Stu and Priscilla Fanning <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014 Hello Sherry, I finally have some time tonight to deal with the notes in my family tree that have spaces in the middle of the words. From the information below, it seems like I can continue with the tree that I have transferred to Legacy from Family Tree Maker via a GEDCOM. Is that true...that I don't need to delete the tree and start over again importing the tree? The Knowledge Base, as written below, says that I can tell Legacy to change the method it is using and three choices are given. First of all, which of the three choices should I choose if I want to get rid of the spaces in the middle of words, and then where do I find a place where I can tell Legacy to change the method? Please give me step by step/key by key instructions because I am not at all familiar with where to find things in Legacy. I feel that I have looked through the tool bar and have not been able to find anything at all that would have anything to do with spaces in the middle of words in the notes section. Thanks, Priscilla From: Sherry/Support <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Switch From FTM 2014 Priscilla, Relative to the spaces in the Notes, this article from our Knowledge Base explains it http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00514 How Notes Are Formatted in a GEDCOM File: In a GEDCOM file, multiple-line notes are supposed to be broken in the middle of a word at the end of each line. For example, this is how a small note might look in the file: Aunt Mary spent most of her ti me knitting. When she wasn't kni tting something, she was cooking. In the past, however, most programs would break the lines between words instead of in the middle of words. For example: Aunt Mary spent most of her time knitting. When she wasn't knitting something, she was cooking. A problem arises if the old style is imported with the new rules. This results in some words being put together without any space between them. For example, the note might look like this: Aunt Mary spent most of her timeknitting. When she wasn't knittingsomething,she was cooking. Or, if the new style is imported with the old rules you end up with spaces in the middle of words: Aunt Mary spent most of her ti me knitting. When she wasn't kni tting something, she was cooking. Legacy keeps an internal list of how all genealogy programs export note blocks into GEDCOM files. This allows Legacy to decide how to put the line back together again when the notes are imported. Sometimes a GEDCOM file comes along that came from a program that Legacy never heard of. In this case, Legacy might guess incorrectly as to how the note lines are formatted. SOLUTION: If, after importing a GEDCOM file, you find that the notes either have spaces in the middle of some of the words, or that some words don't have a space between them, you can tell Legacy to change the method it is using. You can choose between: • Let Legacy decide how lines are broken • Lines are broken in the middle of words • Lines are broken between words Relative to the Event Sentences, those can be edited by going to View > Master Lists > Event Definition to edit the definition to read the way you'd like to see it as well as using the Sentence Override for changing a specific wording. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Stu and Priscilla Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: I switched from FTM, but 2006 or somewhere back there. I am still in the process of moving over to Legacy 8 via GEDCOM. My trees are much smaller, and I am certainly not a Legacy architect. I am just bumbling along. So far, I have noticed that in the General Notes, there are a lot of spaces in the middle of words that need to be fixed. In trying the Descendant Narrative Book Report, some information comes out in a strange and less than complete form. I believe it was the area in FTM where you could put in "Religion", "Residence", "Occupation", or "Education", etc. and then a date and information. In the Legacy report I get "She had a religion between 1943 and 1950. She had a religion between 1975 and 1995." "He had a residence between 1943 and 1965." I figured that my only option was to rewrite this information and put it into the General Notes. If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear them. I don't have tons of this sort of information in my trees, but it would be easier if I did not have to rewrite. 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