Thanks for your comments Jan. I had a look at what you suggested and had a little play around.
I changed one of my entries from "Brisbane, QLD, Australia" to "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia" with a short name of Brisbane, QLD, AUS. Then I went to (Options-Customise-View) and checked the box next to "Use short location names on screen views". That will suit my requirements apart from the fact that all my other short descriptions have appeared as "Brisbane, Qld, Aus" and the overseas ones as e.g. "Scarborough, Nry, Eng" which is not correct. Years ago I changed the overseas locations to be long with a short alternative and I didn't change the Australian ones at that time because I like to use QLD, NSW etc. When I originally entered these places I know I typed all the Chapman Codes in capitals. Why have they reverted to lower case? Is there an easy way to fix this without being a mamouth task? Regards, Ann from Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Roberts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:03 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events Ann, You can customise the short version for any / all of your locations. Only thing is, as you add new locations you have to periodically go in and change the short name for any new ones you've added. Easy to do though. And you can elect to see the short location names on the individual screen. Any locations where the short name is different to the long one will show the short name - if you haven't actually made any changes to the long name it will show the long name. (By default the short name is the same as the long name.) Let's see if I can get the process right! Go to View > Master Lists > Location Click on a location name Click on Edit You will see the long name and beneath it the short name Make any changes here for individual locations. If you want to make global changes - e.g. all Queensland to QLD the process is a little different. Go to Search > Search and Replace Find where - lists - location short Find what - (e.g.) Queensland Replacement Text - (e.g.) QLD Make appropriate selections in the How to Find box and the How to replace box. Click START You get the option to change all occurrences automatically, or to do them one at a time to avoid unintentional changes. Cheers Jan (also in AUS) -----Original Message----- From: Ann Pickett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events Thanks also to Jennifer -- I certainly see your point (Queensland instead of QLD etc.) but I prefer to see the shorter version on the Family screen so, unless there's a way of seeing the short version for Australia and the long version for the rest of the world, I'll stick to what I have. I can easily change with search & replace if I have to. 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
