On 17 Jan 2010 Robert Mann wrote: > I would like to record all county names as X "county" and use > two-letter state abbreviations in all my USA locations. But, I > can't find any way to control the location format to that extent.
A little-publicized feature of Legacy is the ability to change these defaults for user-customizations. The Legacy folder contains a bunch of Geo*Codes.txt files which control the location defaults. These files should *not* be modified. However, when Legacy starts it checks to see if there are alternate user files which override the above ones. These user files are named Geo*Codes-Alt.txt. So . . . to change the location defaults, copy the appropriate Geo*Codes.txt file, modify it to suit your needs, then save it as a Geo*Codes-Alt.txt file. Modification instructions are provided at the beginning of each file's data. To use 2-letter abbreviations you should create a GeoStateCodes- Alt.txt file and amend the GeoStateCodes.txt data. To add "county" to your locations you should create a GeoExtraCodes- Alt.txt file and amend the GeoExtraCodes.txt data. Get back to us if you need further help with this. Cheers, -- Dave N. -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. --- 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
