Thanks Laird - I'll try that. Elizabeth On 23 February 2012 04:54, Laird <lftu...@bayleenet.net> wrote: > Paula and Elizabeth, > You don't have to compromise on the export, you can still keep Source Writer > sources. > > 1. DO NOT export as GEDCOM. > 2. Export as a Legacy file, from the file menu: File>Export to>Legacy > File You can use a focus group or tag the subset you want. > 3. Export it. > 4. It will ask if you want to open it. > Laird > > On 2/22/2012 8:29 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: >> Elizabeth, I believe you are correct (can't edit standard output) & that's >> why >> Legacy has the RTF option. >> >> Re: showing only some descendents >> I have seen on this list people recommending you export the subset you need >> to >> GEDCOM, then import into a new file, then unlink the "branches" you don't >> need >> in the particular report. (I'm paraphrasing.) >> Maybe that sort of approach could work for you. >> >> ON THE OTHER HAND: There are known issues with GEDCOM vs. Source Writer >> citations, so maybe it wouldn't work for you. >> --Paula in Texas >> Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman >> Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field >> Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes >> Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts >> Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *From:* Elizabeth <roobee...@gmail.com> >> *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> *Sent:* Tue, February 21, 2012 8:38:14 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Using Word for descendant report >> >> Thanks for all the advice. My original reason for exporting to Word >> was for subsequent editing. Whilst I probably should be able to get >> Legacy to produce the wording I need, if I only, for example, need >> some of the descendants shown, it seems easier to do that in Word. >> >> I don't believe one can edit the Standard Output, just print? >> Elizabeth >> >> On 20 February 2012 00:26, Mark Lang <markl...@adam.com.au >> <mailto:markl...@adam.com.au>> wrote: >> > Elizabeth, >> > >> > Upon further examination, I too have found similar results. I will be >> reporting this problem. >> > >> > >> > Kind Regards >> > Mark Lang >> > Beta Tester >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Elizabeth [mailto:roobee...@gmail.com <mailto:roobee...@gmail.com>] >> >> Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 5:20 AM >> >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> >> <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> >> >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Using Word for descendant report >> >> >> >> I have exported a descendant report, via rtf, to Word but am puzzled >> >> by various additions to the text which appear to have inserted >> >> themselves. �For example, one event should read: "He was resident at >> >> Gilbert Street, Paddington, London in 1841" but following 1841 is >> >> \up51\up0, with the last five digits in superscript. I think it >> >> should simply be a single superscript 1 for the first source quoted. >> >> Can anyone suggest where these might have come from, please? >> >> - - - - - - - >> >> Elizabeth >> >> researching ALLAMBRIDGE (Dorset, Somerset and anywhere else they might >> >> turn up) > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > >
-- - - - - - - - Elizabeth researching ALLAMBRIDGE (Dorset, Somerset and anywhere else they might turn up) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
