* Narrative reports

[skipindave]

Hello Users,I have tried to show an example of a narrative report which I like to use,used the Vista Snipping tool,but all i can see is the path.

anyway,how can I get into the programme to delete certain pre listed items such as ' He was an' when reporting on Occupation
'she was a',there are lots of these bits which i want to be rid of in my reports.
I am trying to print a report with a bit of interest instead of the lists of census dates all with the same address.

to anyone not used to this programme it must appear a bit boring to wade through all these things.

Hope you have the gist of what i'm getting at.
anyone any thoughts.
BTW has everybody used the Snipping Tool on Vista,good piece ok kit,but don't know if it works on e-mails

Dave

Ps I note from the preview that it is there.





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[Jane]

You can either override the sentence on the Person, or customise the output via the Fact Set to remove the prefixing information.

I presume currently you are actually putting the occupation information all on one Fact rather than the more normal way of recording each fact separately with its source.

[skipindave]

Hi Jane ,thanks for that I'll try that out.What I am looking for I suppose,is that a report should read more like a book than a list of census dates etc.

Dave in Inskip

[JonAxtell]

No computer generated report will look like a book. The complexity in getting the program to generate a very readable biography from a list of facts without it looking repetative is very high. Reasonable attempts can be made, but in anything to do with real life there are always so many exceptions and no program would be able to cope with many.

[arishmell]

As Jon suggested, computers don't write books.  Books require a lot of editing before they are readable and so will your FH report.  Save it in Rich Text Format (.rtf) and open it with a word processing program.  Then you can play with format, wording, images etc until you have your masterpiece! [smile]

Maureen

[gerrynuk]

I totally agree with Jon and Maureen.

For me the best compromise is for the computer to do what it is best at and to output the facts as a list; not to attempt to turn them into a readable narrative.

Gerry