thanks folks As I don't seem to have missed an important step I'll put a bug report in
Cliff -------------------- --- On Mon, 27/9/10, Gene Young <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Gene Young <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 Search & replace and tab character > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 27 September, 2010, 18:36 > On 9/27/2010 10:45 AM, Ron Ferguson > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Ron, > As Cliff said, this does not work any longer. Using > the insert tab > button or manually entering «tab» in the search for field > does not find > tabs in the notes. The only thing I have found in the past > that did work > was to copy a tab entity from the notes fied and paste that > in the > search for field. I just tried that in the most current > version > ( 7.4.0.45) and now that does not work. I think it is > time for a bug > report. > > -- > > Gene Young > Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada > With Legacy Family Tree > http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm > > > > 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
