Bill Rhodes wrote:
Is there anyway to copy (type) data from an actual Census document
into one of the blank census forms provided in Legacy "Reports", and
then copy that completed form into, say, "Events" or "Notes"?
I hand copy the pertinent information into a blank Excel census form. I
then save the page as a .csv (comma separated value) file. After a
little editing, I get a file I can copy and paste into the details for a
census event. Here is a small example of the out put;
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Series M653, Roll 184, Page 412, Pg.108-IL, Hancock, Bear Creek
Township, Basco PO
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14
1108,1050,Tamer PRESTON,68,F,,Farmer,$300,$50,Virginia,,,,
,,Susanna PRESTON,33,F,,,,,Virginia,,,,
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If you copy this and past it into a plain text file and save that as a
.csv file you can open it with Excel and it will line up the header
numbers with the information and if you have a blank census sheet you
can easily decipher all the information given. This allows anyone to
understand what is meant without having to fight to format everything in
Legacy (which still doesn't work well.)
I hope that this helps,
Gene
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