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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: Whole Chart Printing
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 05:25:46 GMT
References: <3D06D7A4.3050609@austin.rr.com>, <20020612015639.05485.00000750@mb-ms.aol.com>, <3D08BC9F.65ECF8AA@scs.uiuc.edu>


Doug McDonald wrote:

>
>His Jadedness Andy wrote:
>
>>>Does anyone have a recommendation for any software that would allow me
>>>to produce an all-in-one chart that I can customize to include more than
>>>the boxes of people? And out of curiosity, why is this such a rare
>>>feature of genealogy programs? It seems a very interesting thing to do
>>>for families.
>>>
>
>FTM does allow customization, with effort. You make the chart,
>then there is an option to "copy all in one tree". Do so.
>
>Then get in Powerpoint and make up a blank page. Do edit, paste,
>and drag the outline to the proper shape. Select the whole thing, and
>on the draw toolbar, get to the "ungroup" item, and ungroup it. It will
>ask if you want to convert to something else ..yes, you do. It will
>likely
>not have do a 100% complete ungroup. You have to select the remaining
>groups
>and ungroup those, recursively, until they are all ungrouped.
>
>Then you can edit it as you wish.
>
>Doug McDonald
>
Doug,

Just from looking at this, my guess is that it won't work too well as I
have over 600 in my chart, and I have doubts that PowerPoint could
handle all that. However, I did try it, and it worked fine until I
tried to alter the printing paper size--then it hung and I had to shut
it down. I do appreciate your suggestion and will probably give it
another try. I'll let the newsgroup know if I get this tactic to work
and decide to use it.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

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