Hadn't thought of that. I played with that idea for a bit, but it would take forever to chop up all the pieces of the tree and put them into exact pages (slides) within PowerPoint. We are talking 50 pages of tree here. Plus the idea that it'd be incredibly hard to match up a line from one slide to the next. I'd really prefer software that would do it automagically. "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message news:3CA4F434.1D924A58@scs.uiuc.edu... > > > Duncan wrote: > > > > I've always wanted a nice chart that prints out ALL my research on my family > > tree. > > I own Family Tree Maker 8, which has a unique chart option called "All In > > One" which basically charts every person in your tree. Its content is > > exactly what I want. However, the output can be stretched out on 40-70 > > pages, of which, over half of the pages will be blank, but often printing > > many boxes over "page lines" (i.e. putting a box split between one piece of > > paper and another.) .. Yes, I know, there will have to be SOME of that. > > But FTM really makes no effort to minimize it, nor does it allow you to do a > > little drag/drop to make it look better. > > > > Is there any other software that has the report I want, with some ability to > > customize the output a bit? > > > You CAN do it with a combination of FTM and Powerpoint. > > You get your tree displayed in FTM. Now open up Powerpoint and > set up a blank presentation with the page size you want (custom). Go > back to > FTM and from the Edit menu do a "copy tree" command. Then go to > Powerpoint and > do a Paste. At this point you then have to resize the resultant pasted > object that that it is the correct aspect ratio and fits on the page. > For > some reason the aspect ratio often is horribly wrong. > > NOW FOR THE TRICK!! From teh Powerpoint Edit menu do a Selct All. > At the bottom left of my Powerpoint menu system (perhaps yours is > in a different place) is a Draw word with a down arrow > pointing to a pop-up menu. From that menu select "ungroup" and answer > "yes" > to the question to proceed. This should result in an object for each > box. > If it does not ... and sometimes this happens ... some objects remain > grouped. You have to select each remaining group in turn and ungroup it. > > Now you can use Powerpoint to move the boxes and lines around, and > replace lines with different ones if necessary (for example, add dotted > lines to connect two instances of the same person, if they have a two > descendents who married and had a child.) > > As you do this, you may want to create new "groups" to make things > easier. > > Doug McDonald

I can't remember right off if the All-In-One Tree can be used in the "Book" feature or not ( I think there are some that can't). Any trees you do for a "Book" are done with references from page to page to show where they connect. All you would have to do is print the pages with the tree. Barry Norton "Duncan" <duncantuna@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:U5ap8.32226$b3.9984886@twister.kc.rr.com... > Hadn't thought of that. I played with that idea for a bit, but it would > take forever to chop up all the pieces of the tree and put them into exact > pages (slides) within PowerPoint. We are talking 50 pages of tree here. > Plus the idea that it'd be incredibly hard to match up a line from one slide > to the next. > > I'd really prefer software that would do it automagically. > > "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message > news:3CA4F434.1D924A58@scs.uiuc.edu... > > > > > > Duncan wrote: > > > > > > I own Family Tree Maker 8, which has a unique chart option called "All > In > > > One" which basically charts every person in your tree. Its content is > > > exactly what I want. > > > Is there any other software that has the report I want, with some > ability to > > > customize the output a bit? > > >