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I am unable to save a file as a .ged
I have been doing geneology for awhile now using Word 97. Here is the steps
I did to create the file for importation to my geneology program. 1. Get the file that was sent to me from email 2. Save the file. 3. Open word make modifications, save 4. Open Excel import the file 5. Add a column for the count, giving each line a line number per say for a record count. 6. Save the file in excell format 7. Open Word "merge file" which i have it set up for the proper settings. 8. Select the data source of the excel i just did. 9. Merge into another file 10. Add header info and move the 0 trlr to after the last file. 11. Save as a text document with suffis .ged : file.ged 12. Open geneology program 13. import the said file file.ged 14. complete merge. However with Microsoft Word 2007, it does not have the .ged format included. It is saving as: file.ged.txt Now I am at a hault of importing files. I was using my laptop with word 97 on there to convert the file to a .ged format but now my lap top is down. -- Thank you Scott M. Wright www.swright.info |
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I am unable to save a file as a .ged
When you enter the filename, enclose it in quotes to prevent Word from adding a
default .txt extension to it. Alternatively, rename the file outside of Word to remove the .txt extension. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 24 May 2009 10:13:01 -0700, Scott Wright wrote: I have been doing geneology for awhile now using Word 97. Here is the steps I did to create the file for importation to my geneology program. 1. Get the file that was sent to me from email 2. Save the file. 3. Open word make modifications, save 4. Open Excel import the file 5. Add a column for the count, giving each line a line number per say for a record count. 6. Save the file in excell format 7. Open Word "merge file" which i have it set up for the proper settings. 8. Select the data source of the excel i just did. 9. Merge into another file 10. Add header info and move the 0 trlr to after the last file. 11. Save as a text document with suffis .ged : file.ged 12. Open geneology program 13. import the said file file.ged 14. complete merge. However with Microsoft Word 2007, it does not have the .ged format included. It is saving as: file.ged.txt Now I am at a hault of importing files. I was using my laptop with word 97 on there to convert the file to a .ged format but now my lap top is down. |
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