> I'm interested in what people do on this one. > > Suppose you output a report from your favourite genealogical program > in say DOC or RTF format because you want to put it through some > manual editing in a word processing program. > > What is it you want to do? Is it to tweak the content (sounds a bit > dubious - why wasn't it right in the first place)? Or perhaps you > want to massage the appearance in some way. > > Peter J Seymour <mozng@pjsey.demon.co.uk> I use FTM 2006. For the basic father son grandson reports I let FTM do what it wants and make sure the information in each field is correct. I also edit my notes to make the grammatically correct and formated properly. I use the books function of FTM to put other things into the into the documents. At typical "Book" usually has these pieces. Title page -- In FTM this is free form text, that can be formated to your pleasure. Ancestor tree -- This is the FTM tree organized to provide the family structure Introduction --- This is a FTM function that allow the you to input your own text. In mine this is a basic introduction to the paternal and maternal families that make up the report family. Basic Family report from FTM Free form page --- This is a FTM function that allows me to put anything I wish into the report. In mine I discuss weak links in the family, or my current theories on the ancestors of the first (oldest) ancestor in the report. Index --- FTM function. Except for the poor quality of the FTM wordprocessor which I work around, I have found no need to export to a DOC or RFT file. Keith Nuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net>