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From: "Walter Anderson" <>
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Maintaining format from PAF to Word for .RTF document
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:40:01 -0500
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Charlotte,
Check Word to see if you have it showing "Page View" and not
"Normal" sometimes the way Word views a document gets changed and you see
stuff like you are mentioning.

Walt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlotte Geier" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: [PAF-5] Maintaining format from PAF to Word for .RTF document


> In the past I used to be able to create an .rtf (Rich Text Format)
> document that maintained the forms format from PAF to Word. Suddenly, it
> stopped working that way and now lists all the data one line after the
> other, which is a waste of space and not useful for my purposes.
>
> For instance, I want to make a report of several generations of family
> group sheets that I can then email to a relative (so they can fill in the
> blanks and return to me), maintaining all the lines, boxes, headers, and
> formatting etc. as they show in my PAF print file. Instead of maintaining
> that format as they used to, they are now showing up in Word as all
> separate lines, ie; birth on one line, death on one line, marriage on one
> line, etc. and none of the useful boxes and lines are included. I have
> done it many times in the past, and cannot figure out what has changed to
> cause this not to work as previously.
>
> Has anyone else had this experience, and what did you do to correct it?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Charlotte (Clarke) Geier--
>
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