Thank you to Brian and the two Rons for your suggestions. I went with the 26 search and replaces option from within Legacy and it actually turned out to be pretty quick and painless after all.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Sunday, 17 February 2013 2:49 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tool to add missing period after an initial in a name There is no tool but search > Search and Replace should be able to do the job if you search for each of the 26 letters followed by a space, Use the option to find whole word only so you do not find names ending with the search letter. If all your initials follow a full name you can search for spaceletterspace as the word. Replace the found letter with the letter and a period. You can also edit the person from the potential problem list to fix their initials without periods. Not too useful for you with thousands to do but for those who only have a few that may be a quicker alternative than 26 search and replace operations. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 16-Feb-13 08:02, Alan Thompson wrote: > Hi > > I note that the Potential Problem report can be run to identify a > standardisation problem of "no period after an initial in a name" but > is there a tool or simple method which allows one to correct this > problem for all records in a Legacy family file. > > I have just imported a gedcom file which contains thousands of records > with this "problem" and I would prefer not to have to correct them one > by one. I searched Help but could not find an answer. > > Thank you > > Alan Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
