I have been doing quite a lot of research recently on a branch of my family that emigrated to the USA. As a consequence I've been transcribing a lot of US census entries. Even on dual monitors, getting all the columns to line up is quite a difficult task and results in lines of text that when printed onto A4 portrait wrap 2, 3 or sometimes 4 times. My question is how do others cope with extremely lone lines of text?
My initial thought is that I cut and paste the text from Ancestral Sources into a simple editor (Notepad ++ for example) and then save the output as a .txt file. Then, I import this into Excel as a tab separated file, and split the lines into three or four "chunks", cutting and pasting each chunk one below the other in such a way as each line now comfortably sits within the page margins. I then select the text and export it as a new .txt file ready to import and replace the text generated by AS. The only problem I forsee with this is that the tab settings in FH and AS are fixed width, therefore the original .txt file will need to be edited to replace multiple tab characters with a single tab before importing into Excel. Clearly this is a tedious process, but at the moment I can't think of any other solution.
Unless someone here knows otherwise
