FTM 9 instructions for creating GEDCOM please

[Alan Jones]

I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.

[Robert Heiling]

Alan Jones wrote:

I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.

It's pretty easy! My version is 7.5 though so I can't be certain the
commands & screens are the same. They either are or they aren't and if
anything doesn't look right, then Cancel out.

With the tree loaded & on the screen that you want a GEDCOM for click
File-Copy/Export Family File

In the screen that comes up, tell it where to put the file on disk.
(assume they know how to do that). In same screen, select GEDCOM(*.GED)

Click Save and click OK on next screen to accept defaults.

Voila! That's all there is to it.

Bob

[Kurt F]

"Robert Heiling" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Alan Jones wrote:

I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.

It's pretty easy! My version is 7.5 though so I can't be certain the
commands & screens are the same. They either are or they aren't and if
anything doesn't look right, then Cancel out.

With the tree loaded & on the screen that you want a GEDCOM for click
File-Copy/Export Family File

In the screen that comes up, tell it where to put the file on disk.
(assume they know how to do that). In same screen, select GEDCOM(*.GED)

Click Save and click OK on next screen to accept defaults.

Voila! That's all there is to it.

I have version 10, and it is the same procedure.

Kurt F

[Nick Spalding]

Robert Heiling wrote, in <[email protected]>:

Alan Jones wrote:

I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.

It's pretty easy! My version is 7.5 though so I can't be certain the
commands & screens are the same. They either are or they aren't and if
anything doesn't look right, then Cancel out.

With the tree loaded & on the screen that you want a GEDCOM for click
File-Copy/Export Family File

In the screen that comes up, tell it where to put the file on disk.
(assume they know how to do that). In same screen, select GEDCOM(*.GED)

In the 'Save as type' box.

Click Save and click OK on next screen to accept defaults.

Voila! That's all there is to it.

Confirmed for v9.
--
Nick Spalding

[singhals]

Alan Jones wrote:

I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.

It is impossible to *OVER EMPHASIZE* the need to unselect .ftw and
simultaneously select .ged as the file type. It is a dropdown menu
signaled by a small nearly invisible inverted delta at the end of a box.

Cheryl

[singhals]

Robert Heiling wrote:

Alan Jones wrote:


I have someone with FTM 9 who wants step by baby step
instructions on creating a GEDCOM, I don't use FTM
so I can't help.


It's pretty easy! My version is 7.5 though so I can't be certain the
commands & screens are the same. They either are or they aren't and if
anything doesn't look right, then Cancel out.

With the tree loaded & on the screen that you want a GEDCOM for click
File-Copy/Export Family File

In the screen that comes up, tell it where to put the file on disk.
(assume they know how to do that). In same screen, select GEDCOM(*.GED)

That step is absolutely essential for success.

Click Save and click OK on next screen to accept defaults.

Voila! That's all there is to it.

Bob

Agreed, for as far back as v3.2 (g).

Cheryl