Even on a PC without Word, right click on an .rtf document and select "Open with Wordpad". .rtf is just a file extension for Microsoft Word. Changing the extention(after file creation) to .doc might make it more universal. Even if you don't have Word, one or more applications on a PC will open it. If you are using a Mac or Linux, etc. please give more info. Also, while I'm not too sure what your project was exactly, here is an easy way to collect notes from the web. It also strips odd formatting that you find in a lot of html pages, that messes up text documents and PAF Notes: Keep a shortcut for Notepad(found in Start-All Programs-Accessories, or similar on all Windows machines) handy. I have it in my Quick launch bar, but on the desktop is fine too. Place the data you are collecting there instead of PAF Notes. Lots of people do that to clean bits of data of formatting, on the way to placing in Notes or saving elsewhere. David Creelman ----- Original Message ----- From: "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 9:23 PM Subject: Print-to-file, individual reports > Is there something I should know about printing a succession of individual > reports to file? > > I selected 12 individuals and have spent the last 4 hours trying to print > them to file so I can cut'n'paste notes from where I put them to where I > want them. > > I was on-line and in a hurry, and after a bit decided it would be faster > to figure out WHICH of 7 men of the same name a specific paragraph meant > after I disconnected, so I put everything into the NOTES I had open at > that time. These were two to four liners and copying the source info and > then the 2 to 4 lines, save, save, find, open, etc etc was taking a while. > > Now, I've got a couple full pages of notes in X and more than half of it > belongs to a,b,c,d, and e. > > I print to file, it saves an rtf file, but nothing can open the file. > Doing an open and repair gets me machine code; doing a retrieve text gets > me massive amounts of obscure code that makes JAVA look intelligble. > > Error message says the I've been denied permission or I'm out of disc > space. Both are unlikely, unless PAF has suddenly started doing something > squirrley. > > Cheryl >