Pat, What I have generally done is: add the new Basic source master and set up a citation in the source clipboard; tag the individuals who have the old SW source cited (use "show list") and go through the tagged list: click on the 'books' icon to see their citations & wherever the old SW source is cited (could be multiple fields), click "remove" and then click "-" to apply the citation from the clipboard. (I think it's "-") (the cursor stays on the correct item in the person's information list); untag the person. When you reach the end of the tagged list, you should be able to delete the old SW master source because there are no remaining citations.
This really is faster than trying to figure out a way to "automatically convert" them, especially if you're talking only 20 or so people. I only have a couple of sources that are used by more than that many people anyway. If something minor needs to change for different individuals (like a page number in a book), then set the detail in the clipboard to "prompt for detail" (check box lower left). --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 Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: Pat Hickin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, November 15, 2012 6:31:11 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] replacing source -- SourceWriter to Basic How can I replace a source written with a SourceWriter template with the same identical source but written using the Basic template? As you probably already know, you can't merge the two. Pat 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
