Thank you SO MUCH, Bob! That did the trick! You have made my day! ElaineO in the Beautiful Missouri Ozarks
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Bob Austen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > 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
