Importing descendant chart into Word

[John Bye]

We are working on a family history book to be published, using Microsoft Word. We want to include descendant charts in the book that we develop from our Reunion database. How does a person 'copy and paste' the chart made in Reunion into the World document. Each time we copy a multiple-page chart, only the first page of the chart appears, and we cannot figure how to get the entire chart to import. We are using version 8 currently for this.

[Bob White]

On the Reunion side, use the Save Graphic command while in Chart. That gives you the choice of tiff, png, jpg or pdf. Since you are adding to another document, I'd recommend either png or jpg.

On the Word side, put your cursor where you want to insert then use the Insert menu -- choose the Picture >> From File command. Navigate to your saved chart, choose it and click OK.

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Each time we copy a multiple-page chart, only the first page of the chart appears, and we cannot figure how to get the entire chart to import [into MS Word].

Any page you print from Word is going to be one page long, so I can't see how importing multiple pages into Word is going to be helpful. If you "shrink" the image enough to print out on one page, the print will be so small as to be illegible.

It may be that there are workarounds (such as designing the charts to be one page long), but for putting together a book, I think you'd be much better off with a page layout program than a word processing program.

[Bob White]

One of the reasons to save as a png or jpg is that they are easily resizable. Yes, a page layout program would be better. For most users on the forum, I imagine that the page layout leg of Pages is quite sufficient. No reason to hit the steep learning curve of something like InDesign.