"What other option would you suggest?"
I would suggest that you use the fantasitc "marked box" capabily that Geoff built into all the FTM charts.
This lets you mark each and every box (or group of boxes) with all the box, line and border styles available in FTM.
Plus you can vary lines
Marked Boxes - FTM help Notes
To mark people in a chart
You can mark people in a chart as a way of highlighting certain people or highlighting a direct line. Marking people lets you apply specific box formatting (lines, colors, fonts, etc.) to those people.
To mark boxes in a chart:
In the chart, click the box or person you want to mark.
Note: You can Ctrl-click to select multiple people.
Right-click the chart, click Mark Selected, then select the mark style you want to use. The Marking formatting properties are applied to each selected person. See Box, Border, and Line Options for more information.
To edit the marked box format:
To change the Mark Boxes formatting, click Box and line style to open the Box, Border, and Line Options dialog box.
Select Marked Boxes in the list, then select Border, Fill, Shadow, and other attributes you want to apply to marked boxes.
When you have finished, click OK.
Then right click on a marked box and look at the huge array of options
This is the key to make complicated charts more readable
John D
I would suggest that you use the fantasitc "marked box" capabily that Geoff built into all the FTM charts.
This lets you mark each and every box (or group of boxes) with all the box, line and border styles available in FTM.
Plus you can vary lines
Marked Boxes - FTM help Notes
To mark people in a chart
You can mark people in a chart as a way of highlighting certain people or highlighting a direct line. Marking people lets you apply specific box formatting (lines, colors, fonts, etc.) to those people.
To mark boxes in a chart:
In the chart, click the box or person you want to mark.
Note: You can Ctrl-click to select multiple people.
Right-click the chart, click Mark Selected, then select the mark style you want to use. The Marking formatting properties are applied to each selected person. See Box, Border, and Line Options for more information.
To edit the marked box format:
To change the Mark Boxes formatting, click Box and line style to open the Box, Border, and Line Options dialog box.
Select Marked Boxes in the list, then select Border, Fill, Shadow, and other attributes you want to apply to marked boxes.
When you have finished, click OK.
Then right click on a marked box and look at the huge array of options
This is the key to make complicated charts more readable
John D