Try a "Search Replace" from the Search menu Find where > General Notes Find what > (press the space bar twice to indicate a double space) Replacement text > (press the space bar once for a single space)
How to find Tick "Find whole word only" Tick "Anywhere in the field" How to replace Tick "Replace only found text with replacement text" At bottom of pop-up tick Come back to this screen after the Search and Replace Repeat process until no more Double spaces remain On 13 December 2013 15:27, Jay 1FamilyTree <1familytree....@gmail.com>wrote: > <snipped> > > Since the recent mention of the 'spacation' errors, I thought, lets at > least ask to see if maybe some thing had passed me by in the way of a > solution. > > I have a large database with over 215,000 persons > At least 18,000 have general notes > and there are over 150,000 event records with notes as well. > > So, it's a huge job to some day spell check all of those records.... > > The built in spell checker almost works, if it only had a variable to > check if a space were removed would that solve the error. > > I'll look around some other places and maybe there is a solution out there > some where for me. > > <snipped> > 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
