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Ivor
10 Nov 09 21:12
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A cousin and I have written a single-name family history covering over 200 years and running to 250 individuals and their lives, wives and kids. At the moment it is written in TimesNR on white background for printing and publishing in conventional book form.
The next stage is to 'print' to cd and ebook very cheaply for today's 21st.century descendants.
I have selected a backing style, font, font colour and sizes etc - BUT when I introduce them I immediately lose the left and right margins and the words overflow off screen. It seems to be a case of EITHER OR fancy presentation.
Does anyone know how to retain BOTH please?
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Report wur November 10, 2009 9:16 PM GMT
ROFPSML!!!
Report delz November 10, 2009 9:19 PM GMT
Good luck with it, pmsl.
Report Flutter_kid November 10, 2009 9:20 PM GMT
You have clearly gaffed up at some point.
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 9:25 PM GMT
very helpful ta - i'll try that and see wot appenz..
Report delz November 10, 2009 9:25 PM GMT
wot appenz

Is everything written in that kind of style? Pass me a copy, please!
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 9:28 PM GMT
you may struggle with ewords greater than 5ive letters?
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 9:30 PM GMT
like phthisis
Report rustyboy November 10, 2009 9:44 PM GMT
click on the little arrows on the ruler at the top of the page. drag them around (with all the text selected/highlighted) and see if you can restore the margins.

HTH!
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:25 PM GMT
thanks rusty - tried dragging them (and tabs) and margin size in page set-up - no good. Currently having to manually input spaces at the start of each line and manually pushing the last words down to the next line. This will not be fun over hundreds of pages!!
Report rustyboy November 10, 2009 10:26 PM GMT
highlight all and click the "justify" button (3 horizontal lines of equal width)
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:27 PM GMT
Arghhhh! Correction - WITH text highlighted it works!!
Well done that man - you can have a free copy next year :)
Report rustyboy November 10, 2009 10:29 PM GMT
:|
Report lmfao November 10, 2009 10:29 PM GMT
Ivor: anyone interesting in the family tree??
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:29 PM GMT
''Although very old, our surname is most certainly not prolific. For example in the 1881 census for the whole of mainland Britain, there were only around fifteen hundred listed individuals using the name or the more common derivatives that we see today (see below). Indeed within todays much larger population of sixty million or so, we probably still number fewer than ten thousand! The name, like so many others, has been corrupted over the years and today we see many derivative forms of it''
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:32 PM GMT
All illiterate working class in the 19th.century and until the early 20th century - though there was a Bishop, a Lord Mayor of London and an MP with the name hundreds of years back. (No proven connection of course).
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:33 PM GMT
RUSTY RULES OKAY!
Report lmfao November 10, 2009 10:35 PM GMT
mate of mine did this - got back 400 years on one branch - umpteen generations of sheepfarmers on romney marsh / around that area- none of em did anything else for ages and ages
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 10:40 PM GMT
Nice one - it's a great hobby.
The oldest I have is a couple who married 16th.October 1662 in Holwell, Herts. Stephen Woodfield and Elizabeth Empey. Stephen was a farm-labourer and Elizabeth a 'collar-maker'.
Report Big Charlie November 10, 2009 10:42 PM GMT
if you go back far enough, we're all related to Adam and Eve

It's say so in the wholly bibbly.
Report rustyboy November 10, 2009 10:42 PM GMT
did they not have parents?

Adam and Eve are my oldest traceable relatives.
Report rustyboy November 10, 2009 10:43 PM GMT
that means we're related charlie :(
Report Ivor November 10, 2009 11:00 PM GMT
There are no Adams or Eve's amongst my ancestors - I must be alien :(
Nos Da!
Report Mumm-ra November 10, 2009 11:06 PM GMT
Done mine went back to stone age & found a Mr W Rooney - Weird
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