Fine, that is what I understood you meant, what I don't know is whether, providing the sheets are the same construction, from within Excel you can break them down into smaller files which the Google method can handle - incidentally will your iPad handle files of that size?
My suggestion in contacting Malcolm was in case there may be an easier way of getting your Excel files into Families. The file construction is certainly different to that of Legacy, but, as I said, I do not know what it is. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Laura Johnson Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:40 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy/Families/iPad/Spreadsheet Help I guess it is confusing. The Excel file contains over 20 sheets which contain over 155000 documents which have been transcribed and is fully searchable and sortable. I enter these records one line at a time into the Legacy file (or hopefully I will be able to do this with Families when I am traveling). My problem is getting an application for the iPad which will read the Excel file. On 8/16/2012 6:24 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > I was not suggesting that you use OOo, you already made it clear that you > did not wish to, but that you break you Excel file into smaller sections > which Goggle etc. might be able to handle. > > I understood from your post that you wished to enter the Excel File(s?) > into > Families using your iPad which you could subsequently sync with Legacy. > Apparently not. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laura Johnson > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 12:09 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy/Families/iPad/Spreadsheet Help > > First, I would need to copy it into about 10 separate files to get OOo > to work with the file. > Secondly, I don't need any help with Families. That works great and I > can enter all I want and sync back when I get back home. I just need > something that will convert the excel file to a spreadsheet application > on the iPad so that I can view the spreadsheet file. > > On 8/16/2012 5:59 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: >> Laura, >> >> I am not an Excel user (being an OOo man!), however, is it not possible >> for >> you to copy just a section of your Excel file into a new sheet, which you >> can then transfer using Google? >> >> However, I would be tempted to get in touch with Malcolm Green at TelGen >> and >> they do have a Forum: http://www.telgen.co.uk/families/forum/ which may >> be >> able to help. I'm afraid that unlike for Legacy I do not know the >> construction of Families :-) >> >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Laura Johnson >> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:15 PM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy/Families/iPad/Spreadsheet Help >> >> This is slightly offlist. You can fee free to contact me offlist >> regarding any solutions you can see. >> >> I have Legacy Deluxe and use Families to use the Legacy file on my iPad >> and it works great. >> >> my problem is that I also use an Excel file as a companion to my Legacy >> file. It contains a complete database of all of the records I have >> transcribed for a place in Sicily (91 years of births, marriages and >> deaths - over 155,000 records so far). I am in the process of entering >> these records into Legacy (slowly). I would love to bring this >> spreadsheet file over to the iPad as well but can't seem to find a >> conversion program on the iPad that will work. I found one >> (iSpreadsheet) that said it would work with Excel files but it uses >> Google Docs/Google Drive and Google Drive can't handle the size of the >> Excel file. Don't even suggest OpenOffice as OO cannot handle the Excel >> file in a windows environment (it is too slow). >> >> So what I need is a way to Convert the Excel file into a spreadsheet on >> the iPad so that I can work to enter the documents Families while I am >> traveling >> > > 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
