Jim, As a lurker on this LUG list and just starting to look at reports, your post will help me tremendously. I thank Barbara for asking and you for this information. I am at the point where other researchers are asking me to share information on individuals in my Legacy. I sent them the Individual Reports in PDF format, but they ask for a report they can open in MS Word. Now I know what to do using RTF and have been playing with opening TXT reports in MS WORD.
Regards, Jane Tripp Using Legacy 6 Deluxe with a very basic knowledge & use of this program , but learning daily from this LUG list and the Legacy website ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Terry/Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:20 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Word Document Barbara, The RTF format is a generic word processing document that you can open in MS Word. To produce this type of report output format, click the option near the bottom-right corner of the reports that support this output type. When you do, the Print icon turns into Save icon. Clicking this icon prompts you for a filename and location for saving the rich text format file. It will have a file extension of .rtf. When the file has been saved, Legacy offers to open it with your default word processor if you want to view it or work with it. With the RTF file open in MS Word you can edit it to add additional information and pictures. Index and Table of Content codes are even embedded in the RTF file so that MS Word can generate these items and refer to the correct page numbers. The recommended order for working in the RTF file is: 1. First, make any changes/additions you want to the body of the book. 2. When done editing the book, then generate the Table of Contents using the MS Word's Index and Tables feature. (Click on Insert and select Reference > Index and Tables.) 3. The very last step is to generate the Index using the MS Word's Index and Tables feature. (Click on Insert and select Reference > Index and Tables.) This order is very important because the page numbering for the Table of Contents and the Index won't be right if you do them before making changes/additions to the book. Good Luck, Jim Terry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Barbara Ford Subject: [LegacyUG] Word Document Is it possible to save a report in the format of a Word document (.doc)? The only choices I see are .pdf and .rtf Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
