Thank you Lavern.
On 2012-10-27 05:45, Lavern Hall wrote:
Hi Daphne,
Thanks for the explanation and example.
You're designing a beautiful book!
Lavern Hall
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Daphne Eze d...@shaw.ca
mailto:d...@shaw.ca wrote:
A macro is programing language that is
A macro is programing language that is specific to a program. It helps
you automate repetitive tasks. For instance if I want to if I want to
apply a style to the 1st and 4th cell in multiple tables I will record a
macro then run it on all the tables ( I might have 200 tables). The
tables are how I
@ Daphne, What does write a macro mean?
@ Leon: From reading your post, it sounds like your books follow
the Decendant book format. Have you found this format to have any
advantages over the Ancestor's book format? It may be a matter of
preference, but there must be some sort of criteria to help
Lavern,
A macro is basically a script which allows one to automate a (repetative)
process.
Regarding your second question, please just think about it, a descendant report
will only show the descendants of a person, an ancestor report will only show
the ancestors of a person. If B is a
Lavern,
I'm curious why you are putting @ in front of names you are responding to.
This is a user group list, not Twitter.
Ron Bernier
Woonsocket, RI
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On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Lavern Hall lavernh...@gmail.com wrote:
@ Daphne, What does write a macro mean?
@ Leon:
Lavern,
I'm curious as to why you are prefacing names you are responding to with @?
This is a user group email list, not Twitter.
Ron Bernier
Woonsocker, RI
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Lavern Hall lavernh...@gmail.com wrote:
@ Daphne, What does write a macro mean?
@
On 2012/10/26 18:31, Ronald Bernier wrote:
I'm curious why you are putting @ in front of names you are responding to.
This is a user group list, not Twitter.
Trying to address multiple individuals in a single reply to a single message
from a single individual :-)
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Lavern:
A descendant book vs. ancestor book has been explained in another response,
but here is what I have found.
I have focused my books on 1 to 4 family lines, e.g., Chapman's. In the
case of 1 family line, the book is all about Chapman's and it is very
natural to use the Descendant report
Leon,
You write
Another chapter that is nice to include is famous ancestors. If you upload
your family (no living people) using a GEDCOM to Ancestry, then Ancestry
can provide a nice trace using their world tree to famous ancestors. You
can create that report in ancestry and copy it into a
I try to check and verify the important ones, like Presidents
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Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Leon,
You write
Another chapter that is nice to include is famous ancestors. If you upload
your
Thanks Everyone! I very much appreciate
your comments and advice.
Lavern Hall
Aurora, Ohio
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com wrote:
I try to check and verify the important ones, like Presidents
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Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
On Oct 26,
. ;)
--Paula
From: Lavern Hall lavernh...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Fri, October 26, 2012 10:53:23 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FGS Report
@ Daphne, What does write a macro mean?
@ Leon: From reading your post, it sounds like your books
Thank you Brian. What I need is an editable table not graphic lines. But
good news. I think I have a method
Save as pdf
Open in word perfect
write a macro to format as I want
save as rtf
place in Indesign
And it works!!
I would also work with ms word but I'm better at the wordpertect macro
I'm using Adobe Indesign to layout a family history book that keeps
track of descendants of my gr gr grandfather.
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Is there any way to save it as a rtf that can be opened in ms word?
Or is there a way to
The RTF specification does not support the graphics lines used in the
FGS in Legacy so you cannot export the FGS report in RTF format. Will
InDesign accept the PDF format output from Legacy?
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Daphne:
It appears to me that you are going back in time about 15-20 years before
genealogy software could write and publish reports.
Have you tried the Publisher in Legacy?
It can combine Descendant reports, Family Group Sheets, Chronology reports,
scrapbooks, ancestor charts, 4-5 level
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