What you need to do is what I have, for different reasons. Go to the master surname and/or location list. Choose 'Keep what I put' or something like that. I use it to keep surnames like 'de la Ware' from becoming 'De La Ware' and 'of' not changing to 'Of'. Also handles McDonald not Mcdonald. Rich in LA CA
--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] locations > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 1:24 AM > Jan Roberts wrote > >I have an event which I have called Photograph. > In description I write > >who is in the photo, in place I may want to put > something like 'outside > >their house', or 'next to the monument' - in other > words, something > >which is not strictly a location. I used to be > able to do this and > >each word would stay in lower case. Now 'outside > their house' > >automatically becomes 'Outside Their House'. If I > try to edit the > >location it appears to stick, but then reverts to > initial caps. Places > >I have previously entered in all lower case are > unchanged. Has there > >been a change to the way Legacy treats locations? > Interestingly, if I > >enter (say) Morwell, Victoria, australia it doesn't > change! > > Annoying for you, but as 99.999% of users will not be using > the Location > field for other than Locations, you can understand why the > Legacy > programmers have designed it to work in this way. > > If you go into the Master Location List you will be able to > edit your > "location" to "Outside their house" and it will stay that > way. > > Annoying, I know, to have to do this each time, but it's > the price you > have to pay for being unconventional!! > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > 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
