Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Q/A, new Tagging options, and other surprises

2013-06-15 Thread Jane Sarles
Geoff, Excited to see the new version and it's looking super. If I may make a suggestion- someday I should like to see an enhancement that would solve many problems for me: I have several ancestors for whom I have POSSIBILITIES as their parent - but nothing set in stone. Is it not possible to

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word

2013-06-15 Thread Virginia Blakelock
Barbara - As you probably know you would want to first convert your rtf to Word format using' File / Save as .doc' in Word to convert. Alvy Ray Smith also published Word macros to accompany the article.If you can find them, they might be more useful than styles. I assume you have his

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word

2013-06-15 Thread Barbara Snow
Yes; I'm afraid my query is caused by my lack of sophistication in how to manipulate the data once it is in Microsoft Word. The footnotes will renumber, which is great, but when I add a footnote, I have to change the formatting to make them match... and I thought I could do this by creating and

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word

2013-06-15 Thread Ron Ferguson
Let me say from the outset that I know nothing about MS WORD, being an OpenOffice,org User. Having said that, it is my understanding that with WORD styles are applied to each section (or something like that). Open Office completely separates out the styles from the content, so that the styles

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Q/A, new Tagging options, and other surprises

2013-06-15 Thread Eliz Hanebury
I use Possibly as part of the first name, cheap and easy to figure G Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.comwrote: Geoff, Excited to

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word

2013-06-15 Thread singhals
Yes, it's possible. Or so I am assured by power-users of Word and WP. I suspect a college-level class might reveal their secrets, but I've no interest in paying that much for the knowledge. Look at Alvy Ray's document -- might help. Based on my experiences, it will make an incredible

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Q/A, new Tagging options, and other surprises

2013-06-15 Thread Robert57P_gmail
I like the below suggestion - obvious in all reports. But that POSSIBLE would show up for ALL children and it may only be one child that you are unsure of. Another option: In family view, right click on ANY child Select CHILDREN'S SETTINGS Hi-lite the appropriate child Under RELATIONSHIP TO

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Q/A, new Tagging options, and other surprises

2013-06-15 Thread R G Strong-genes
Then you could add the other possible parents by putting the person in the current person view then clicking on the parents icon and add parents in the window that pops up. From: Robert57P_gmail Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 2:50 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Editing reports in Microsoft Word

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Seens
You may want to review this link regarding writing tools for genealogists. It may provide some tools in this regard: http://genealogy.about.com/od/writing_family_history/tp/writing-tools.htm On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM, singhals singh...@erols.com wrote: Yes, it's possible. Or so I am

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Q/A, new Tagging options, and other surprises

2013-06-15 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
It's still there, you can even add 2 custom buttons that will launch anything on your computer. I've set mine to AniMap and FamilyTreeWebinars.com. It's called the My Toolbar. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation ge...@legacyfamilytree.com www.LegacyFamilyTree.com