re: [LegacyUG] How do I Convert Reports To Word For Editing

2014-10-15 Thread Jim Terry/Support
Al,

See "Tips for editing RTF reports created by Legacy" at
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00550


 Original Message 
> From: "Alan Wakenhut" 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:36 AM
> To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] How do I Convert Reports To Word For Editing
>
> Is there a way to convert reports produced in Legacy 8 that can be
converted into Word for editing?
>
> Al



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RE: [LegacyUG] How do I Convert Reports To Word For Editing

2014-10-15 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Mike is correct. Your best bet is to allow Legacy to produce a RTF which Word 
can directly open. If you need to bring a PDF file into Word, it takes a little 
trick. Word will not directly open a PDF file (assuming that you haven't 
installed some sort of 3rd party add-in). To accomplish getting the PDF into 
Word, open a Word document and place the cursor wherever you want the PDF to 
begin; if it’s a blank, new document then just leave the cursor at the 
beginning. Now the trick: select INSERT and then choose OBJECT (in the TEXT 
Group menu in Word 2010), then select Adobe Acrobat Document.

But once you've finished editing the complete document in Word, there is no 
SAVE AS a PDF file (unless you've installed some sort of 3d part add-in). If 
you want to convert back to PDF, then you need either Adobe Acrobat or some 
other 3rd party PDF creator application.


Brian in CA


-Original Message-
From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:55 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I Convert Reports To Word For Editing

On 15 Oct 2014 18:19, Alan Wakenhut wrote:

> Is there a way to convert reports produced in Legacy 8 that can be
> converted  into Word for editing?

Word uses RTF format files. Legacy can produce RTF files. Legacy can also 
produce PDF files which, I believe can be read by Word and saved as something 
else.

--
Regards,
Mike Fry (Jhb)






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Re: [LegacyUG] How do I Convert Reports To Word For Editing

2014-10-15 Thread MikeFry
On 15 Oct 2014 18:19, Alan Wakenhut wrote:

> Is there a way to convert reports produced in Legacy 8 that can be converted
>  into Word for editing?

Word uses RTF format files. Legacy can produce RTF files. Legacy can also
produce PDF files which, I believe can be read by Word and saved as something 
else.

--
Regards,
Mike Fry (Jhb)



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