I tried the "Find and replace on the "Search" menu. I put in what seemed to me to be what I wanted to do - replace whole word text "Co." with County..... The result was 0 replacements. Just didn't seem to work.
I also did the "Expand/ contract location parts, and it appeared to do some, but not all. Perhaps I have my place-holders wrong in which case i will still have to go back and change each manually. Bummer. Jane On , Virginia Dunham <[email protected]> wrote: > Jane, > With the Master Location Index opened, click on the "options" button > located in the left hand side. > From there, choose "expand/contract location parts"...there are several > choices listed there that you can choose (which may "handle" changing > your states from an abbreviated form to the full form.) > To change the "Co" to county...you should be able to accomplish that with > a "search and replace" (located in your "search" button on the tool bar.) > Virginia > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jane Sarles [email protected]> > wrote: > But, what if one wishes to change only one word, ie: I began by using the > abbreviation "Co." and only recently changed to the full word "County" in > my locations. Now I would like to be able to change all those "Col"s to > County with one click. Same thing with state abbreviations - I need to > change all those "IN"s to Indiana. Don't think I can do it within the > location list, that I can tell. Am I wrong? > Jane Sarles > 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
