The reason the system will not allow you to change Van cleave to Van Cleave has to do with the face that most text-based software ignores case - it is not case sensitive for lookups. Therefore, it thinks you want to change the name to exactly the same thing and it ignores you. What you need to do in those cases is to make two passes - first change it to Van Leave, for example, then go back and change it to Van Cleave. I've experienced that same type of problem in many computer software programs - Quicken, even Microsoft Word, etc., unless it also has a "case sensitive" option which you can turn on. --Jerry in Michigan
On 01/16/2011 06:36 PM, Gene Hutson wrote: > Go to master lists>Surnames, and fix whatever you want to. > > Hope this helps, > > Gene > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Fry > Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search& Replace problem > > On 2011/01/16 22:43, [email protected] wrote: >> I am trying to replace "Van cleave" with Van Cleave". I have done Search >> and >> Replace 3 times but it comes up with 0 replacements. What can I be doing >> wrong? >> I also tried replacing cleave with Cleave, but that didn't work either. >> The Case >> Sensitive is checked. > Ah! But are you searching in the right place? If this is a Surname, why > won't a > quick edit of the Surnames table work? > 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
