Leslie1899

I did provide details: my existing v6 folders were on my logical E: drive. NOT ON THE C: DRIVE. I did not set up or make any type of file placement change anywhere during or after the installation process. This was a simple installation allowed to go wherever TMG v7 wanted it to go. I did not intrude in any way on file placement. I'd intended to play with that later once I was comfortable with exactly what had to be done and how to do it. With no direction by me, the program folder is in C:\Dcuments and Settings\All Users\ApplicationData\TMG. I cannot find the Program Data, User Program Data Files or User Data Files. They are not under C:\Documents and Settings\username [there is no username listing shown]. I have only Administrator, All Users, and Default User. Wy did the installation program go onto an entirely different drive and change v6 folder names. I can't tell if anything was changed, not having a listing of program files with dates created. I am no longer certain where v6 is located, other than I can open it so perhaps it's safe. Doesn't it seem advisable to uninstall v7 immediately? Thank you for any help you can provide in the mystery. Leslie I can't think of any explanations for this. I'm afraid to uninstall v7 because I don't know what else may happen. Only my project data, located on still a different logical drive, appears unaffected. Leslie

I'd like to add my two cents about how extremely serious I consider this problem to be. I have never considered having data or programs installed on the C drive. Only the operating system goes there so I can go through the agony of reinstalling Windows - something which appears to be necessary once a year or so to solve otherwise insolvable operating system problems. I run XP Pro and the nether regions will freeze over permanently before I move to Vista or any other MS operating system. Terry, should I buy a new computer either it will have to have XP Pro installed OR I will wipe its hard drive clean and install it myself. Actually, the next computer I purchase will be an Apple which can run XP Pro, solely so I can use WordPerfect and TMG! This household does not use any other Microsoft programs, other than an operating system I loathe, period. I am now really wavering with respect to purchasing v.7, despite its many improvements. I will run a trial of it, but if I find the placement of the program, its files and my data too onerous, I will reluctantly decide not to buy it. This saddens me more than I can say. I can't imagine why the decision was made to make these changes to the file structure. Leslie

I appreciate both responses. I seriously doubt that I'd ever want to add this particular group of people back into my primary dataset. None of the members of this group are in any way connected to anyone else in the original dataset. I understand the advisability of using separate datasets to review received gedcoms although I never request or accept them. When I started working on an extremely difficult family line, I added this ;group of 132 individuals on the off chance they could be related. But subsequent research has determined that they are not directly related. Of course if one goes back to the 1300s or so, they are. However due to political upheavals in this part of England, records were lost. Later in the 1500s-1600s, the King of England's lineage experts could not resolve the problems of tracing the baronial line of this family prior to the 1500s. Obviously tracing the non-baronial lines would be even more impossible. Hence my desire to remove them from my dataset. I could simply delete them all and don't think I haven't considered this. But, being cautious by nature, I decided to simply move them into a separate dataset, save it to a standalone hard drive and not think about them again! Thanks again for the help. I reviewed Terry's chapter and am considering following his recommendations (although, frankly, it seems as if there ought to be a simpler method - - one would think that placing them into a focus group and exporting that group into a separate dataset should suffice). Leslie

I've downloaded Favorite Filters from the Arlington RUG meeting which helped, but did not solve my inability to filter my project the way I'd like to. Here's what I'd really like to do: filter out by surname those people for whom I have no death information at all. I haven't entered a Tag because I had no information at the time the person was entered into the database. Therefore, selecting a query based on the tag being empty doesn't return anything. I'm preparing a research trip and would like to know for whom in a particular family surname group I need to find death/burial information. I've successfully printed out a report on those for whom I have a date of death, but no citation. But, is there any way to filter for missing tags, such as death and/or burial? Thank you for any suggestions, Leslie

I had insolvable footnote problems with reports sent from TMG to my WordPerfect software. I’m running TMG v6.12 and WP X3. No one seemed able to help me change the forced formatting which left my footnotes in the same point size type as the text of my report. I had too many footnotes (more than 800 on a one-generation report) to do a simple Find and Replace fix. Several people tried to help on the WordPerfect Universe Forum (an excellent place from which to get WP help at WordPerfect Universe), but Kenneth Hobson went out of his way to write a fast macro that solves the problem. I am attaching this macro for anybody using WordPerfect who has the same problem with WordPerfect footnotes. Here’s what you need to know when running this macroFontCorrect.zip: 1. I advise using WordPerfect version 5.1 or later in the Print to file: File Type option. Using other WordPerfect versions created different problems which probably could be solved if one re-wrote the macro. For example, when I outputted to WP v8 or later and ran the macro, all my superscript footnote numbers in the footnotes were deleted while the superscript numbers in the body of the text were, of course, left alone. 2. Kenneth wrote the macro in the simplest way, so that I could understand what was happening. As a result it isn’t as elegant as he might have made it. Two things happen that might alarm you: a) as the macro runs through your report, it initially flickers with the first page showing, the next thing that happens is the pages “white out.” Don’t be alarmed by this. The macro is working. when the macro has finished running, you will get a message to the effect that the “last footnote couldn’t be found.” Click OK in the message box. Once you’ve clicked OK, your report will open with the footnotes properly formatted. 3. This macro is written using Times New Roman font codes. However, Kenneth sent me the codes for report output in Arial with the text in 10 point and the footnotes in 8 point type. They are: Font (Name: "Arial "; Family: 16662; Attributes: FontMatchNormal!; Weight: 90; Width: WidthUnknown!; Source: PRSFile!; Type: 0; CharacterSet: FontMatchASCII!) FontSize (FontSize: 0.111") //8pt To substitute the above or other font codes, open the macro and remove the Times New Roman codes. If you elect to cut and paste these settings (as with any code you cut and paste from a website), you must copy the desired text; then go to the Edit option on your WordPerfect tool bar, click Paste Special, and highlight Unformatted text and finally click OK. Do not try to simply paste the codes into the macro. For complete details, go to WordPerfect Universe Forum . 4. To obtain the correct numbers for other font types and sizes, Kenneth says, “You can record a macro to see how the font and font size codes are used. Then copy and paste the code from the recorded macro to your other one. Another option is to add some blank lines to your first one and press the record button on the macro toolbar and set your font. Press the Stop button to stop recording.” If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to email me at tturner@houston.rr.com . I take absolutely no credit for this macro; I simply want everyone to have access to it. Kenneth Hobson gets all the credit! Toby Turner

I really need to find a way to change report margins in TMG 6's report writer so that when the report is sent to a WordPerfect file and ultimately printed, I can bind the report. While I can change the margins on the main body of the document once it's imported into WP, I have to change each individual footnote's margins. All my work is sourced so there may be 200+ footnotes for each primary person so individually changing the margin of each footnote is an impossible task. I also discovered that the latest release of TMG 6 has a problem exporting into WP v8 or higher. All reports are formatted in Times Roman 12 point even if they are formatted in the TMG report writer in Arial 10 pt type and the font cannot be changed once the document is in WordPerfect! I've never run into this problem before and I'm an experienced WP user accustomed to using control codes. Having learned this the hard way, I am exporting into WP v5.1 or later. Leslie

I found a solution although it's not the one I would've chosen. I'd never sent a report directly to the printer, but if you go to the setup options for the printer you will find two margin options: .5 and 1.0. If you select the 1.0 and save it, when you next go to export a that particular report, the margins will both be 1.0 in the body of the report AND in the footnotes. This is quite a bit wider that I would like, but it's far better than losing parts of words and footnote numbers when you bind a report. Leslie

I went to the macro, as well as WprdPerfect, site, but there wasn't any help on it that I didn't already know. The situation is still the same: the only way to change the footnote margins is to edit the "style" of each individual footnote. The .5 margin originates with the report writer in TMG and forces this margin on each and every footnote. There isn't a global method to replace this style . . . unless I am willing to change the importation of every document I might possibly import into WprdPerfect into this particular style and even then, I'm not at all certain it would work). I can easily change the blasted .5 margin in the document itself gobally, but not on the footnotes. I tried to record a macro to make the changes, but the area required is greyed out. No help there. This is very discouraging. Leslie

Thank you, John. I went to the site and will try to develop my own macro to do this. I still think TMG should give owners the ability to set desired margins in any report. Given the flexibility of the overall program, it's amazing to me that this isn't already an option. Leslie

I have WP v11 and I have the Arial typeface available on my HP LaserJet printer, currently set up to do postscript printing. I do not believe the problem is with WP. I absolutely, positively HAVE to have a right and left margin that can be set to .75 because I perform duplex printing for all my reports. The issue with the export into WP v8 and higher was completely unexpected and I won't ever try that again. The TMG Individual Narrative report WAS set in Arial 10, but it became Times Roman 12 in WP. And, it could NOT be changed once I was in WordPerfect! No amount of fiddling with control codes could change the typeface or point size. I didn't bother trying any of the other reports. Once I switched to the Journal report and back to exporting into WP 5 or higher, the type face was correct. I can set the report margins to what I want. However, I cannot change the footnote margins without changing each individual margin. This is a total impossibility with as many footnotes as I typically have. TMG automatically assumes a .5 margin on both right and left sides. THIS is what I must be able to change to .75 in order to be able to bind or even punch holes in my reports for placement into a regular 3-hole binder. Leslie