Re: [LegacyUG] Formatting notes

[Cathy]

Unfortunately you are not missing much. You can get tabs to stick if you 
use CTRL-Tab rather than just Tab - or copy and paste the census 
transcription. But the screen display will be different to the report 
display. You need to keep checking the report if you want the report to 
look 'pretty'. I did this for descendant book reports and Multiple Line of 
Descent reports for a chunk of my family. Looks good but was fairly tedious 
to do - I got better at it :-).

I found it was best to use spaces between Name and Status rather than tabs.
I didn't go to non-proportional font as I don't like the look.
I use an old free version of TurboNote (v3.4) these days to transcribe 
census. The note will sit on top of all windows and when I copy and paste 
to Legacy, the tabs seem to travel with it so things are fairly well lined 
up.  The other feature I use is the ability to set an alarm on a note - for 
any date or time to remind me to pay bills or get the bread out or whatever 
;-) You can still find the free version on the net if you search but mostly 
the latest shareware version. Could be time I upgraded and paid up.

Cathy
At 01:24 4/02/2005, you wrote:
Hi,
My notes don't look 'pretty' and I'd like to know how to format them in 
tabular columns (census information). Is this possible?

Also, even if I get them looking relatively okay on the notes page by 
inserting spaces, the spacing doesn't seem to carry over to reports such 
as the Family Group Sheets. What am I missing?

Thanks
Ann
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