Looking for best software to write biographical sketches with photos.

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Permalink Reply by Mary L Ennis on August 16, 2011 at 3:08pm

Hi Kyla,

I've seen a family history "notebook" done with individual biographical sketches @ photos.  Each person was on a separate page and I assume the person used a Word program.  I don't believe the older versions of FTM had this type of format either.  I print all Family Group Sheets when I enter information so those could be used to enter information on a word document.  Please let me know how you make out as I would like to do this.

Mary Ennis

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Permalink Reply by Kyla Sandberg on August 16, 2011 at 3:41pm

Hi Mary,

I just had a reply on facebook to use Word or Openoffice. Openoffice is a free download. I played around with an older version of Word and it looks like it will work for me, but I was curious about any other suggestions. I will keep you posted. Sometimes I think the sketches might appeal more to some of my relatives and they might stand a better chance of being read. A lot of the material I can cut and paste from my notes in FTM.

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Permalink Reply by Laurie Davis on August 18, 2011 at 8:30pm

Open Office is what I use for anything where I need to create/print out something - it is the equivalent of Windows Office suite of products [Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint etc]. And it is FREE...gotta love that!

If you then want to create a PDF file...download Cute PDF Writer...it installs like a printer. When you are done creating your document you choose "print" then "CutePDF" and it will allow you to choose where to save it a make you a .pdf file of it. It makes the files much smaller to send via email....

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Permalink Reply by Kyla Sandberg on August 18, 2011 at 10:25pm

Thanks Laura. Sounds good.

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