Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-12 Thread William Boswell
, February 8, 2017 9:46 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book Microsoft Word is certainly capable. Reminder: it is 2017. I would hope most people use Office 2010 or later, or Office 365. As I recall my exper

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-10 Thread johnbernacki1
or confusion. John From: Ana Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 11:43 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I have been publishing books for decades, using all MS Word versions, before that a whole lot of typing. I have done genealogies & transcript

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-09 Thread Ana
I have been publishing books for decades, using all MS Word versions, before that a whole lot of typing. I have done genealogies & transcriptions of census, marriage bonds. Use Google & you will find all kinds of free tips, tricks & instructions for MS Word 7, which has powerful indexing

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-09 Thread Pete Beatty
CE, The is NO commercial word processor that is going to convert any document from another other company with 100% accuracy. An example of this is vendor A uses a 8 character name for a paragraph style and that document is saved as a DOC/RTF/PDF file. You open your word processor and then open

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-09 Thread Ms Mary K. Lund via LegacyUserGroup
ram, they will AUTOMATICALLY be created and re-ordered if necessary! It is marvelous! Mary K. Lund From: CE WOOD <wood...@msn.com> To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Steve Hayes
On 9 Feb 2017 at 5:19, CE WOOD wrote: > Sorry, You DO have to renumber when you move photos to a different position. > When you position them differently, the endnote numbering changes. If you > leave them in the same position relative to other photos and events, you do > not. THAT is the

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread CE WOOD
to reposition, which is when the problem occurs. CE From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 8:14 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Cathy Pinner
enea...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:12 PM *To:* Legacy User Group *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book CE Use endnotes with RTF - I don't think there is the choice to use footnotes anyway. And you won't have the problem. Yes the pictures embedded in a

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Steve Hayes
On 9 Feb 2017 at 2:14, CE WOOD wrote: > The problem is, that pictures are not always the right size or placement > in the document. Changing their placement ruins the footnotes! Then, you > have to go through the whole document and renumber the footnotes, which > can take weeks, if you have

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread CE WOOD
. CE From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> on behalf of Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 7:12 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book CE Use endno

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Cathy Pinner
ots.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 5:45 PM *To:* 'Legacy User Group' *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I suspect that the reason many people have had problems with creating Book from Legacy using MSWord is that they are using it on a computer system wit

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Ian Thomas
Microsoft Word is certainly capable. Reminder: it is 2017. I would hope most people use Office 2010 or later, or Office 365. As I recall my experiences with it, Microsoft Word 2007 had some frustrating bugs that affected production of well-formatted documents (I did many, for scientific /

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread CE WOOD
ay, February 8, 2017 5:45 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I suspect that the reason many people have had problems with creating Book from Legacy using MSWord is that they are using it on a computer system with only minimal RAM and proc

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Cathy Pinner
f johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au <johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:14 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned limitations or problems

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Brian Lightfoot
...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Carol Boswell Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12:50 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I had problems with a 125 page book using Word 2007. It was an editing nightmare. I've used Word for years and recommend perhaps

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Carol Boswell
acyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a book, and suggested another word processing program (possibly an open-source one). I do n

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Grandma Deb
ent:* Wednesday, February 8, 2017 12:15 AM > *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book > > > > I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned > limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a boo

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-08 Thread Pete Beatty
: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a book, and suggested another word processing program (possibly an open-source one). I do not remember the original

Re: [LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-07 Thread Cathy Pinner
John, If you haven't watched this Free Webinar on Word, I suggest you do unless you know Word really, really well - and it sounds like you don't. You'll need to understand Styles etc to get a good book out of Word and to successfully combine Legacy RTF with the pieces you are preparing to add

[LegacyUG] Publishing hard copy / printed book

2017-02-07 Thread johnbernacki1
I use MS Word 2007. A number of months ago somebody in the LUG mentioned limitations or problems with MS Word while assembling a book, and suggested another word processing program (possibly an open-source one). I do not remember the original question put the LUG, or the alternative word