I save all my documents in RTF. Have had too many problems reading other peoples files, so I don't want anyone to have that problem with my files. Just part of my personal Genealogy Standards. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:14 AM, MILLARD A.R. via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > From: Adrian Abbott via > > Sent: 19 February 2015 11:54 > > > > I have come a cropper, trying to copy and paste chunks of family tree > > from FTM into gmail emails. The superscript that appears frequently in > > FTM reports reverts to ordinary text, producing dates, for instance, > > as 17228. Although one can eliminate some superscript by not including > > References, generation are linked by superscript. I have therefore > > been removing the offending numbers manually. > > > > The best way out of this seems to be to attach the info as a Word > > file, but not everyone has Word. Is there any other way round this? > > RTF or PDF are more universally readable formats than Word, and Word will > save as either. Or export from FTM to Word and then copy-and-paste into > Gmail. As long as you don't have plain text mode on pasting from Word seems > to work (I tried a paragraph I wrote this morning including superscripts > and Greek letters and it worked fine). > > > Best wishes > > Andrew > -- > Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk > Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk > Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + > ../LND/ > Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Bodimeade one-name study: > community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ > My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Researching Drinkwater surname all over the world, any time, any place, but especially Descendants and Ancestors of Paul Drinkwater, born 1789 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England. GOONS #5057 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/drinkwater.html