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Hi Valerie
GEDCOM file is a raw, text formatted database of a family tree
structure - individual, marriages, events, sources etc. - but it does
not, and cannot, include media information. The current version,
currently 5.5.1, was developed FamilySearch as part of process of
building their family tree system in the 1990s and has become the
standard for data interchange between multiple, and different, genealogy
systems, although most of them, including Legacy, can now import and
export using other systems formats, and potentially handle media
information. There have been a number of plans to build a new
interchange format, but that seems to be not going anywhere.
Since the GEDCOM file, with a .ged extension, is text it is capable
of being opened by any text processor - Notepad, Notepad++, Word etc., -
but it generally needs to have a .ged extension for it to be imported
into a system. Legacy will export a GEDCOM with a .ged extension, even
if you put an different extension in the dialog - test.txt.ged gets
created.
If your system is always opening, from Windows Explorer, a .ged file
with Word it is because the default setting in Windows for the extension
has been set that way, and you will need to change it. This is based on
a Win7 system:
1. Right-click on the file in explorer
2. Click on Open With... - the system will give you a list of possible
programs as Recommended Programs.
3. Below those is a line labelled Other Programs which has a down arrow
at the right end.
4. Click on the down arrow and the system will show you a list of other
programs
5. Select the one that you want to use and ensure that the Always use...
tick is enabled
6. Click on OK to make that the default program.
7. You can also use the Browse option to physically locate a program
which is not in the list.
It is not obvious that the down arrow can be clicked on - it took me
a couple of years to find it.
If the file is a valid GEDCOM file, ie raw text, with the wrong
extension you can just rename it with a .ged extension. BUT, if Word has
opened and saved it as a .doc or .docx extension it will then be a
formatted Word document, and possibly restructured. Copying the text
from Word to Notepad should work, but it may have problems if Word has
made any Line Feed changes.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Valerie Garton" <[email protected]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 01/01/2019 00:32:47
Subject: [LegacyUG] Trying to do a gedcom which comes up as a word
document
How do I fix this please ?
Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney
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