Working with Outline Items
After you have decided which reports and trees you want to include in your book, you can begin to organize their order in the Outline for list. This is the order in which they will print when you send your book to the printer. You can also control which of your reports will start a new chapter in the book.
Organizing the Items
When you added to the Outline for list, Family Tree Maker simply placed the newly added tree or report at the bottom of the list. However, this might not be the order in which you want them to print. You can add them in the order you want them to appear, or you can simply move them around after they are in the list.
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Although Family Tree Maker doesn’t disable the buttons, you cannot move the Title Page. Family Tree Maker will tell you that the Title Page must be the first item in the book.
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It is a good idea to have a plan before you start moving around the reports. For more information about publishing your family history with Family Tree Maker, and for some ideas about different types of family history book projects, you might want to read Create Your Family History Book with Family Tree Maker Version 8: The Official Guide (Prima Tech, 2000) by Martha Arends.
Working with Item Properties
As you were putting your reports and trees into the order in which they now appear, you were probably visualizing the divisions of your book. If you look at any of the published family histories in your local genealogy library, you will see that they are broken into chapters to make using the book easier.
