Hi Elaine, At some point the name was entered as O'bryan. Legacy 'stores' the names as entered and then will 'autofill' as is does with addresses (for example). If you have the name O'bryan you can change that by going to the Individual's Information and, with that individual selected, click on the arrow beside the surname. This will open the Master Surname List and you can edit the name to read O'Bryan.
You can also go the View/Master Lists/Surname... and edit the names there. Bob A -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Mahl O'Neill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Maintaining spelling of Irish Surnames I have a huge number of people in my file with Irish surnames like O'Bryan, O'Neill, O'Burn, etc. Legacy, both 7.5 and 8 refuse to keep the letter after the apostrophe capitalized. If there is a way to stop it from changing what I put in I haven't found it. I have set the data format preference to "Don't change what I enter", and it has not helped. The only other solution is to put the name in all caps, but then I get the problem alerts, and there are just too darn many names with this issue to go in individually and click on the "Mark as not a problem" button. So, what I'm asking is there any secret, trick, or solution to keep the names as they should be written with caps both before and after the apostrophe? Thank you for any help you can give me. ElaineO in the Beautiful Missouri Ozarks 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
