Still, if you're using the clipboard, if you have "prompt for detail" checked on the detail, then all you're really re-entering is the page number. Apply the clipboard to the Unspecified field, enter the page #, save, and remove citation from Name, save, untag individual and move to next one. (just double-checking you and I are thinking the same on how to use the clipboard in this case...?) Sometimes it just takes a while to do what needs to be done. I still haven't finished removing the the mother/father relationship values that were set during my import (in 2002??) because of a bug in the program at that time that I didn't detect until much later... finished my direct line, but the rest of those folks are going to have to be fixed in small chunks as the mood strikes me. haha Good luck! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, August 18, 2011 9:13:44 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Any More Source Short-Cuts ? On 18/08/2011 13:10, Jerry wrote: > Thanks Jenny, but how would that method handle each record's source detail? That question implies that the Source Detail is not the same for every record, as I was presuming. If it different, you would have to do the copy and paste in batches. Hopefully, if you were starting from scratch with 1000 records to update, you would not have 1000 different Source Details to cope with! ...Jerry / MerriamFamilyTree.com > > Jenny M Benson<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 17/08/2011 22:19, Jerry wrote: >>> Hello again. Is anyone aware of any shortcut keys (other than the >>> source clipboard) that might help me out with my project? What I wish >>> to do is to transfer a source that was input under NAME to the >>> UNSPECIFIED source item. for over a thousand records. I'm doing this >>> for consistency and because I don't want to populate multiple sources >>> which would increase our website bandwidth until there are new sources >>> to add to the individual fields. There is detail to go with each source >>> record (page numbers from our large book), so I can't just change >>> everything over without cutting and pasting the detail. I'm plugging >>> along fairly fast, but just wondering if anyone knows of an even more >>> stream-lined approach. >> >> Other than using Access, I can only think of one thing which would speed >> up the process a little, but is not of any use to you because you have >> already started to move the Source from Name to Unspecified. However, >> FWIW I'll mention it. >> >> First make a copy of the Source and give the copy a different name. >> Using Copy (once) and Paste (many, many times!) add the re-named version >> of the Source to the Unspecified field for each individual. Then delete >> the original version of the Source. >> >> (Note, this assumes you want to delete ALL instances of the original >> Source.) >> >> You still need to visit every record to paste the Source into the >> Unspecified field, but you don't have to spend extra time removing the >> old Source from each record. >> >> -- >> Jenny M Benson -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
