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== Advanced Usage ==
;Know the page size you want to print to first.
:This is actually very important. There are lots of different things you can do.
:If you are printing at home you know what you can print on. If you are printing somewhere else (I use Kinkos a bit), know what they can print on (and how much). example, my Kinkos has a 36 inch wide printer. The paper is on a roll so height is not an issue. So if the report is too long, use the replace option to get it down. then use the scale to width and one page option.
:Also don't rule out Landscape. I've made quite a few legal paper reports that were landscape, and fitted to width. Makes an easy report to put together, either taped or bound one page after the other.
:A new style will allow you to play with the report title. Changing the font size will change the width and height. No duh. But if there are LOTS of kids the title can be much wider than the report and that creates a problem. In this case you can scale down the title font size to make the two widths match up better. Also if there is only one or two children, you may want a larger title (if you have the height to do so)
;Generations / Indent Spouses / Replace:This is more than likely the width of your report. Using replace option correctly can give a better report and maybe room to get in another generation ;Compress Personal Display:Do you want every line printed all of the time so people can write on it? Or remove blank lines to really shrink up the height of a report. ;Replace text:The size of all of the columns is set to the longest line. Really it is the widest as length does not stipulate width (the letter 'i' is much shorter than the letter 'W"). So changing/abbreviating the widest line will shrink ALL of the columns. ;Scaling the size of the ...:When using 'Scale report to fit page width only' look into using the replace option first when working with a report that is too wide. This will decrease the amount that the font size has to decrease. Thus the readability will increase.
