chris gardiner

Getting desperate. I just downloaded a free months trial of windows word. Will try File>Place as you suggest. Open Office and Word really don't like long word and picture chunks. open office does not have a docx option . is why I agreed to the trial. My little laptop is a bit stuffed with MS bloatware. Regretting it already. My other route is to split my books into chapters. Am looking at Scrivener which is just a bit ott when you only want to make a family history. If ever you try do be super careful what you say especially about the living. Photo's are more beyond dispute. Uploaded a .doc into word and saved as docx and affinity refused to see the file when it was saved. Times new Roman and ariel fonts maybe Garamond -- ye gods. not ideal but not really got to that bit. Scrivener does not text wrap at all which might be sensible since it aint that easy. I think if all inline pictures were all anchored to a paragraph things might not go nuts. None of these progs just stop when they run out of blank pages, nor do they add pages. So primitive. The thing I like about Affinity is the A3 page size. So useful for an Album. A word of warning to all biographers. You will upset somebody for sure. Most people have stuff they would prefer to remain burried even if it is generations back.

Getting desperate. I just downloaded a free months trial of windows word. Will try File>Place as you suggest. Open Office and Word really don't like long word and picture chunks. open office does not have a docx option . is why I agreed to the trial. My little laptop is a bit stuffed with MS bloatware. Regretting it already. My other route is to split my books into chapters. Am looking at Scrivener which is just a bit ott when you only want to make a family history. If ever you try do be super careful what you say especially about the living. Photo's are more beyond dispute. Uploaded a .doc into word and saved as docx and affinity refused to see the file when it was saved. Times new Roman and ariel fonts maybe Garamond -- ye gods. not ideal but not really got to that bit. Scrivener does not text wrap at all which might be sensible since it aint that easy. I think if all inline pictures were all anchored to a paragraph things might not go nuts. None of these progs just stop when they run out of blank pages, nor do they add pages. So primitive. As I started with open Office I might migrate to word. Everything else is just too much overload in learning. Also I am making a family album and word is everywhere which could be useful for sharing. Thankas for the help. Really appreciated.

Getting desperate. I just downloaded a free months trial of windows word. Will try File>Place as you suggest. Open Office and Word really don't like long word and picture chunks. open office does not have a docx option . is why I agreed to the trial. My little laptop is a bit stuffed with MS bloatware. Regretting it already. My other route is to split my books into chapters. Am looking at Scrivener which is just a bit ott when you only want to make a family history. If ever you try do be super careful what you say especially about the living. Photo's are more beyond dispute. Uploaded a .doc into word and saved as docx and affinity refused to see the file when it was saved. Times new Roman and ariel fonts maybe Garamond -- ye gods. not ideal but not really got to that bit. Scrivener does not text wrap at all which might be sensible since it aint that easy. I think if all inline pictures were all anchored to a paragraph things might not go nuts. None of these progs just stop when they run out of blank pages, nor do they add pages. So primitive. The thing I like about Affinity is the A3 page size. So useful for an Album.

I see I can try word365 free. So I will and should be able to convert to DOCX and then save and then exit free trial. £80 for one year is too much. So thanks for chat.

Thanks for the help.Ok. That is a help. Most of the text disappeared.. will play around and see if I can find a good way to save the PDF from my ODT documents I think I will struggle on with open office word. It gets confused when you anchor too many wrapped pictures in a long document. Undoes pages ahead. But am too far commited to turn back. May try latest word to see if they have sorted that problem there. Just sharing as a thankyou. Also stuck on how to get from zoom to edit writing inside the paragraph.

When I copy a .PDF file into a blank document it is not editable as far as I can see. I have set resolution at 300DPI at both ends. I cannot find how you set read as text. (searched the import page). If I can make this work reasonably well I will buy Affinity. Thanks Chris Charles Gardiner jnr.afpub