Reports and Books – Family Historian User Group

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An Overview of Reporting: Reports allow you to view your data (or a subset of your data) in various formats that you can use to check aspects of your data entry, or and/or share that data with others
Copy a Query Result Set to a Table in Notes or Book Item: A query can produce very informative tabulated data that may need to be captured in a table in either a rich text Notes field or a Free Text item in a Book
Creating a Book: A book containing as much or as little information as you require on an individual, their family, their ancestors or descendants
Custom Reports: Custom Report Types are derived from Standard Report Types by using the command or the Save Report As… button in the righthand pane
Delete Data for Living People: It is usually necessary to delete the data for living people from your database, before publishing it to a wider audience such as on a website
Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates: These specify the wording for facts in Narrative Reports and elsewhere
Report Content, Media, Format and Layout: Several Family Historian features involve the creation of Reports either standalone, or incorporated in Family Tree Website/CD/DVDs, or Books (in Version 5 or later
Report Tips and Tricks: This summarises some little known tips and tricks with Reports
Standard Report Types: Most reports are organised as tabulated, indented, or simple lists, but Narrative Reports employ Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates to produce natural language sentences
Tabulate Multiline Text in Records and Reports: Important note: As of Family Historian V7, this article is redundant, as V7 supports formatting and tables in Notes