RootsMagic 8:Charts (Reports)

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Box chart

Some reports and charts allow you to print boxes around information. The Border Style dialog lets you choose the format of these borders.

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Border Type – Choose the style of border from the list. The display to the right of the list will show you what the border will look like.

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Draw Shadow – Mark this checkbox if you want the border to have a drop shadow.

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Offset – Click this up/down arrows to select an offset for the shadow (the default is 3).

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Line color – Click this button to select the line color for the box.

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Fill color #1 – Click this button to select the color for the inside of the box.

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Fill color #2 – Click this button to select the color for the inside of the box.

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Shadow color – Click this button to select the color for the shadow.

Pedigree chart

You can print a four, five, or six generation pedigree chart for anyone in your database.

To print a pedigree chart:

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Open the Reports dialog by selecting "File, Print a report" from the main menu, by clicking the printer button on the toolbar, or by pressing Ctrl+P and choose either "Charts" or "All Reports" from the list on the right side of the Reports dialog.

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Choose "Pedigree chart" from the list on the left side of the Reports dialog, and click "Create Report" to open the Report Settings dialog, or Close to exit the dialog.

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Select your options from the Report Settings dialog:

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Starting person – Select the starting person for your pedigree chart (this person will be the person at the far left of the first chart). By default RootsMagic will use whoever was highlighted on the main screen when you opened the Reports dialog, but you can change the person here.

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Generations per page – Select the number of generations you want to show on each page of your pedigree chart (4, 5, or 6).

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Chart number of 1st chart - Enter the number of the first chart printed (usually "1").

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Start person is same as X on chart Y - Tells you if the first person on one of the cascading chart pages appears on another chart. This information is at the top of the printout and gives you the chart number where the person is repeated and his or her number in that particular chart.

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Print cascading charts - Mark this checkbox if you want to produce a series of pedigree charts that span multiple generations for the highlighted person and then for each person in the last generation of the first chart. When you choose cascading charts, you have the following additional options.

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Starting number of continuation charts - Enter the number of the second chart printed.

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Number of generations to print - Enter the number of generations to print (up to 30).

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Color coding – Mark this checkbox to print any color coded people in color.

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Include private facts – Mark this checkbox to print any facts you have marked as private.

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Print preparer – Mark this checkbox to have RootsMagic print the preparer info on the charts.

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Print sources – Mark this checkbox to have RootsMagic print source citations for each person and fact on the chart. Pedigree charts only support sources as "endnotes" since the pedigree chart fills the entire page so that footnotes wouldn't fit. It will also combine all citations for each person or fact into a single source reference number to prevent multiple source numbers from overwriting text.

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Choose Font, Layout and Indexes to change your settings from the default values. (Click Reset to return all settings to the default settings.)

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Click the "Generate Report" button to generate the report and display it in the Report Viewer. From there you can modify the report settings, send the report to your printer, save the report to disk, or email the report.

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Relationship chart

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