RootsMagic 8:Report Settings

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Page layout

The Page Layout dialog lets you customize how your reports will be printed on the page. When you make changes to the page layout, it only affects the report type you are currently working on. For example, if you change the margins or header for a pedigree chart, those changes do not affect the margins or headers for family group sheets. The Page Layout dialog has two tabs, Page and Header/Footer.

Styles

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Headers and Footers

Header / Footer – The Header/Footer tab allows you to customize the way headers and footers are printed on the page.

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Header – Settings that affect the header at the top of each page of this report.

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Print header – Mark this checkbox if you want RootsMagic to print a header at the top of each page of this report.

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Mirror header on even pages – Mark this checkbox if you want RootsMagic to swap the left and right header sections on even pages. This is useful when you are printing on both sides of the page and want, for example, a page number to be on the outside part of the header.

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Footer – Settings that affect the footer at the bottom of each page of this report. The options are the same as described above for the Header.

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Left section – Enter the text that you want printed left justified at the left of the header (or footer), and choose the font, the size, and bold, underline, italic and or strikeout attributes You can enter any text you desire in this area. There are 5 special values you can enter here:

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[Title] – RootsMagic will replace this with a title designed specially for this printout

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[Date] – RootsMagic will replace this with the current date

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[Page] – RootsMagic will replace this with the current page number

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[Total] – RootsMagic will replace this with the total number of pages

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[File] – RootsMagic will replace this with the name of the current database

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Center section – Enter the text that you want printed centered in the header (or footer). You can use any of the special values described above as well.

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Right section – Enter the text that you want right justified at the right of the header (or footer). You can use any of the special values described above as well.

NOTE: The footer section works exactly the same as the header section described above, except that the footer is printed at the bottom of the page.

Header and Footer margins – Enter the number of inches (or fractions of inches) that the header and footer should print from top and bottom of the paper, respectively.

Source options

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Index options

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Chart Colors

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Box borders

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.

Picture settings

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