Dennis, Thanks for the idea; it sounds like it might be a good way. Before that, I am going to try a bit more indirect approach I used to use to attach Lat/Log before Legacy had that ability. I am going to export the location report to MS Excel where I can make sure everything is in the right columns. That lets me focus edits to the specific fields. Then I can re-import the list.
However, neither approach helps me change the way Legacy does things permanently. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Customizing Location Format On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:27:10 -0500, "Robert Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: >Well, I have a mixed bag in my file and I am trying to clean things up. >Legacy's standard format is: >"Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA" >But I want that to read: >"Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH, USA" > >I like having the work "county" in the location, to remove ambiguity about >whether it's a town or county. I only have a few locations in Louisiana, and >I can manually edit them. Assuming you enter placeholders in all your locations, maybe try this (on a copy of your database first)... In Search & Replace, search the location for ", Ohio, " and replace it with "County, OH, ". Now this will cause problems if for locations like "Millville, , Ohio, USA" where you left a placeholder for an unknown county. You will end up with "Millville, County, OH, USA". But never fear ... when you are all finished you can clean these up with a single Search & Replace of ", County, " with ", , ". You will have to do a bunch of these but I don't think it will take too long, as the Master Location table is relatively small. I can't vouch for the above approach as I haven't tried it. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
