I was disappointed in FTM's tendency to load stories as a mass of words without paragraph breaks or indentation, etc.
I like to put several photos on the facing page from where the people are described. I do the family trees in Excel and shrink them to fit the space.
I have tried to print partial stories before, and was frustrated by its format.
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I have only seen a full printed book from Family Tree Maker once in the LDS library, and it did not impress me. Thank you, Pomeroy, for including the picture of the index. Is there a suitable replacement for Adobe PageMaker on the market today, which will handle graphics, tables of contents, and an Index? Word and Pages are both inadequate for writing a long book and moving pages around. This forum suggests Scrivener, but I looked at some forum comments and they did not mention building indexes or tables of contents. Adobe InDesign looks good for designers, but not for authors. I was told that Adobe InDesign did that now, so I bought it but the instructions say nothing about building an index on a book.
The last thing you did before printing was to create the Index, so everything was kept with its correct page number. If you later moved pages around, it kept track of the new page numbers. As you wrote, you could select a name and click "Enter in Index", and it would bring up various ways the name could be entered. It did basic word processing and was excellent at placement of photographs or charts. It was excellent, but is no longer available. I wrote one some years ago using Adobe PageMaker. It will be about 100 pages long and a Table of Contents and an Index are essential.
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