- Cells or borders missing
- Photo chopped off on the right-hand side
- First footnote reference number in a different format from the following numbers when there is more than one.
- Tick marks between the fact name and fact date; not seen in a paper printout from Word but on all PDFs from Word

#1
Posted 05 October 2012 - 05:47 PM
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#2
Posted 05 October 2012 - 07:17 PM
#3
Posted 05 October 2012 - 07:53 PM

Edited by TomH, 06 October 2012 - 06:47 AM.
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#4
Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:23 AM
Father Thomas BALL-5781–4
Birth
abt 1738
Northumberland County, Virginia5–7
Heir
2 Jan 1746
listed in his grandmother Taylor's will; Lancaster County, Virginia8
Residence
bet 1766 and 1768
Richmond County, Virginia7
Residence
1767/8
Amelia County, Virginia7
Property (sold)
29 Oct 1768
1,768 acres; Amelia County, Virginia9–10
Property
23 Feb 1769
in Amelia Co. VA; Amelia County, Virginia11–12
Heir
11 Jun 1769
he is listed in his father-in-law's will; North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia13
Heir
29 Jun 1770
mentioned that gave "his son Thomas Ball an estate by deed of gift."; Lancaster County, Virginia7,14
Military
4 Jun 1776
Amelia County, Virginia15–16
Residence
bet 1787 and 1797
Spotsylvania County, Virginia7
Deed
4 Mar 1794
Spotsylvania County, Virginia17–18
Land Record
2 Mar 1795
Spotsylvania County, Virginia18–19
Residence
1797–1815
Northumberland County, Virginia7
Will
14 May 1814
Northumberland County, Virginia20
Death
1815–1816
Northumberland County, Virginia7,21
Probate
12 Feb 1816
Northumberland County, Virginia22
Burial
Marriage
3 Apr 1766
Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia23–27
Father
Captain George BALL-601 (1713-1770)
Mother
Anne\Anna TAYLOR-686 (1714-1770)
Mother Mildred DOWNMAN-64528–31
Genealogy:
"I work on genealogy only on days that end in "Y"." [Grin!!!]
from www.GenealogyDaily.com.
"Documentation....The hardest part of genealogy"
"Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek!"
" Genealogists: People helping people.....that's what it's all about!"
from http://www.rootsweb....nry/gentags.htm
Using FO and RM since FO2.0
#5
Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:24 AM
Genealogy:
"I work on genealogy only on days that end in "Y"." [Grin!!!]
from www.GenealogyDaily.com.
"Documentation....The hardest part of genealogy"
"Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek!"
" Genealogists: People helping people.....that's what it's all about!"
from http://www.rootsweb....nry/gentags.htm
Using FO and RM since FO2.0
#6
Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:46 AM
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#7
Posted 06 October 2012 - 11:35 AM
- The missing borders can be corrected by changing the border settings for parts of the table judiciously. You cannot simply apply borders to the whole table to surround every cell if you want it to look like what you see in RM Report Viewer because that results in borders where there were naught in the RM Report Viewer; some might think it looks cluttered. There are several steps involved. I took the easy route in the example below.
- The column width for the fact Description-Place data is wider in Word than in Report Viewer and can be adjusted in Word but shoves the rows after Birth below the photo, thus wasting space and looking bad in a different way. It doesn't line up the column for the following person. So there are many steps which I have yet to figure out to get the entire photo displayed without wasted white space and column disarray. Alternatively, and more easily, I selected the Table, right-click and select Table Properties > Options > Automatically resize to fit contents - that worked well for this one example; I don't know how generally it will work out.
- A criticism of the layout is that the table has no margins between content and borders. Another edit is required to set the Default cell margins to 0.05 cm so that the text stands apart from the borders, especially noticeable at the border between the date and the fact description where it is too crowded.
- Where there is more than one superscript footnote reference number, the first number is Times New Roman 10 but the following comma and reference numbers are Arial 11. That's in the row for the Person's name. In the fact rows, the font size is smaller. The inconsistent font type and size within a series of citation references can be corrected by selecting the group of superscripts and selecting applying one font type and size, a tedious process requiring you to inspect for occurrences of multiple citations.

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#8
Posted 06 October 2012 - 12:36 PM
- No index marker is created for the first child, therefore no page number shown by Report Viewer for that person in the Index of Names. When Index of Names is updated in Word, the first child is deleted from the Index.
- When Index of Names or of Places is updated by Word, the format is lost or replaced by one with larger and different fonts, loss of colour coding and a lot of added white space; thus one is left with a major mess to clean up. Maybe this is a Word issue that somebody could help me with.How can I preserve or restore the style of Index produced by RM?
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#9
Posted 06 October 2012 - 12:39 PM
Nettie, to embed an image in the post you need to first upload an image file (JPG, PNG) to an image hoster (I just started using http://postimage.org/). It then provides a URL for the file which you copy and paste into the URL box that opens in the Forum message editor when you click on the image icon. You cannot copy and paste an image directly into the message editor. To capture an image from the screen, I use the Windows 7 Snipping Tool found in the Accessories folder on the Start Menu.
Thanks



Genealogy:
"I work on genealogy only on days that end in "Y"." [Grin!!!]
from www.GenealogyDaily.com.
"Documentation....The hardest part of genealogy"
"Genealogy is like Hide & Seek: They Hide & I Seek!"
" Genealogists: People helping people.....that's what it's all about!"
from http://www.rootsweb....nry/gentags.htm
Using FO and RM since FO2.0
#10
Posted 06 October 2012 - 09:45 PM
Shift-PrtScrn or Ctrl-PrtScrn merely captures the screen to the clipboard from which you the have to paste the image into MS Paint or other graphic editor and then save as a file. The Snipping Tool is an actual program that you launch from Start > Accessories in Windows 7 and is much more useful. You can select full screen, a window or a box which it captures to its own editor in which you can do basic markups, such as the yellow highlighter that I used, before you save it to a file.... I did use Win 7 printscreen button do not know if it is the same as you used...
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#11
Posted 06 October 2012 - 10:42 PM
I just checked, that snipping tool is there in Vista too.
Another little tool that I hadn't discovered.
That will save me a lot of cropping, If I can remember to use it.
Maybe you can teach an old dog a new trick now and then.

But, at my age it is the REMEMBERING that is the problem.

#12
Posted 10 October 2012 - 11:48 AM
- Cells or borders missing
- Photo chopped off on the right-hand side
- First footnote reference number in a different format from the following numbers when there is more than one.
- Tick marks between the fact name and fact date; not seen in a paper printout from Word but on all PDFs from Word
- No index marker is created for the first child, therefore no page number shown by Report Viewer for that person in the Index of Names. When Index of Names is updated in Word, the first child is deleted from the Index.
- When Index of Names or of Places is updated by Word, the format is lost or replaced by one with larger and different fonts, loss of colour coding and a lot of added white space; thus one is left with a major mess to clean up.
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#13
Posted 10 October 2012 - 03:11 PM
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#14
Posted 10 October 2012 - 03:56 PM
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#15
Posted 29 May 2016 - 02:22 PM
Four years and two full upgrades later and little has changed:
- person photos is truncated on the right by one-third
- borders dangle on both sides
- date and event detail crowd up against the border
See this post in the RM7 Forum.
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