To add to Brian's *excellent* information - I have all my options set to "Don't Change What I Enter". That way my O'Brien people keep the correct capitalization of the surname as well as my locations such as LaPorte.
When you need to edit Surnames or Locations, that needs to be done through the appropriate Master List (View > Master Lists) after you have the settings established in Options > Customize > Data Format. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Brian/Support <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like you have Legacy set to convert all surnames to all > capital letters. See Russ's reply about that option. > > You also seem to have another option turned on which is creating the > warning about having Surnames in all caps. > Go to Tools > Potential Problems and look on the Standardization Tab > At the bottom you will see a setting to check for surnames in all uppercase. > Turn that off if you want to save your surnames in all caps. > > PS. It is not recommended that you store your surnames in all caps any > more. That dates from the days before computers when people typed the > surname in all caps to highlight it. With Legacy there is an option to > Display the surname in all caps on screen and a setting in the report > options to convert surnames to all caps. The option to display surnames > can be found here: > Go to Options > Customize > Data Format > Just below the Letter Case of Surnames section is the setting for > display of the surnames. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > Thanks. > > > On 16/03/2011 1:02 PM, Corinne Fordschmid wrote: >> Anyone ever experienced the problem where you are not typing surnames in >> capital letters but the Legacy programme is sending messages saying you have >> done this and you shouldn't? >> >> Corinne > > > > 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
