Evert, I am afraid that this is one of those Legacy functions which I cannot test because, as my main interest is website creation, I never use tabs. I can only, therefore, assume that it works as designed!
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Evert van Dijken" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:58 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 Search & replace and tab character > I've tested this and in my family file two tabs where found and replaced. > > After this I entered some test tabs in General Notes and they were not > found by search and replace. > > So I suppose there is a problem somewhere in the search and replace > routine. > > Evert > > > 2010/9/27 Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>: >> >> From: Cliff cha >> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 2:25 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 Search & replace and tab character >> >> >> Legacy 7.4 Search & replace and tab character >> >> I try and keep tab characters out of my notes and periodically clean >> notes >> fields of tabs using search / search & replace. >> >> Before 7.4 you could replace a ‘tab’ with spaces using search & replace >> and >> entering the ‘tab’ as «tab» but this doesn’t now seem to find them. >> >> Search / find does find «tab» in notes so I can replace them that >> way >> but slower >> >> Is there something I am missing ? >> >> Cliff >> >> Cliff, >> >> The form layout has changed a little, at the bottom of the form there are >> now two buttons to insert either a tab or carriage return in the search >> field. >> >> Ron Ferguson 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
