Unfortunately you cannot combine sources which use different SourceWriter templates. Your message says your correct source is using a different template than the original incorrect ones so you cannot combine the two sources. I am afraid it will be a copy and paste exercise to convert each incorrect source to the correct one.
Without know which templates and therefore what data is in each one all I can suggest is what I would do as a general method since you cannot have both sources open at the same time to copy and paste detail data from the old to the new. If there are only minor variations between uses for the source (like changing a page reference in a book) details I would set up the correct source on the source clipboard and paste it to everyone where the old source is used. If necessary you can modify the details as you paste them if they differ between people. As I paste the new source to the person I would then select the incorrect one and use the remove button to remove that old source. If each use of the old source has a lot of detail that has to be copied to the new and they are all different for each person then it may be useful to open Notepad or a text editor to serve as a temporary place to store the details. This would be for a census for example where there are many fields in each citation and where many fields may change from family to family. Open Notepad Open the old source detail for a person Copy each line of the source detail to a line in the notepad file Close that detail Cite the New source and use copy and paste to transfer each detail from the notepad file into the fields of the new template. Once you have set up that New source you can use the source clipboard to reuse it until you need to create a new set of detail entries for other people. As in the simpler case, once you have pasted the new source to a person's event use the remove button to remove the old source. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 21-Jan-2014 1:30 PM, Charles Apple wrote: > I have recently discovered that I incorrectly used the wrong Source Template > in Source Writer and have several citations to that incorrect source. > Therefore, I have created a new correct source in the Master Source list. > Can the referenced incorrect Source in the Master Source list be merged with > the correct source and maintain all of its references? Everything that I > have read in the help files and the Legacy 8 manual refer to duplicates or > sources that are exactly the same. These two both use Source Writer > templates, however, they are different in that they use different source > templates. > > I am using the most recent version of Legacy 8 Deluxe. Any assistance would > be greatly appreciated. > > Charles 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
