Hi - and as I think someone has already hinted at, the Options/Customise settings are important - Data Format (Surnames) "Don't change what I enter".
Cheers, Brett BMcL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: [Legacy UG] Search and Replace problem Oh, I see you did mention you checked off case sensitive - so, maybe it involves something else, but I think the two passes idea should work. -Jerry On 01/16/2011 07:01 PM, Jerry wrote: > 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
