Jeff, I was primarily using the Narrative Book Report but have switched to the Register Book Report for now, due to formatting issues when including photos in my reports.
I'm in the process of moving material previously entered into notes into an event I also call notes. If it is a long narrative, for instance, I can break it up to smaller sections of the narrative, so I can add photos and assign sources to each segment, if desired. I like to use a lot of photos in my reports so sending the report to a word processor is not my personal choice. I think you just have to goof around with a couple of generations of a family member, try different things and see how you like the results. Just print to the screen and look it over. If you see something not to your liking, try something different until you achieve the formatting style or look that you want. NO genealogy program I'm aware of is going to produce the report that meets everyone's needs, but with a little trial and error, Legacy handles this better for me than any other program I've used (and I own and have worked with most of them). I have to admit my preference for using a lot of photos is what settled me on Legacy. And my greatest hope is they will beef up this feature some day. In my opinion, photos add so much interest to reports and engages the reader in a way that text alone cannot. To be able to add different sized photos in the reports is my greatest wish for Legacy. To further answer your question, I use very few canned sentences. I have changed almost all of them to [notes][sources] and I write what I want for each event. In my opinion, it's far easier to format my notes once, than to have to redo them each time in a word processor. Some exceptions are the obituary event, where I have it set up to read; He/She was remembered in an obituary on [date], in [place]. Then I place the text of the obituary in the notes section of the obituary event and source it. Most of my family likes to have a printed record of the obituary for those who have passed, so this is how I handle this often used event in my narrative reports. It provides the reader, at a glance, when and where the obituary was published and the obit content. The He/She could be changed to insert the given name, if so desired, to personalize it a bit. This is a good question, Jeff, and I hope other Legacy users will chime in with their suggestions on how they format their family reports. Reading the various suggestions is how we all learn to better utilize Legacy. Mary From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Jeff wrote: I am curious as to which Legacy "narrative/book" reports are most used as generated by Legacy or found to be most useable by experienced Legacy users. Do any users print these narratives as created, or are these raw reports usually transferred to a word processor where they are extensively re-edited or even re-written. I ask because many of the legacy created sentences read so awkwardly (no fault of Legacy, a computer generated text can only do so much) that I wonder if it is really useful to take the time to create alternative sentences in Legacy or just send the material to Word where the reports can be re-written in good English. Jeff 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
