I don't think there is any easy way around this. Instead of merging each one to your final choice, you could merge the ones that are near each other first. However, with the examples you provide, they'd all be together if you were sorting left to right instead of right to left - but you probably have a number of towns included as well.
If you've only got 300 locations, you haven't got much of a problem - sort it before you have 5000 locations ;-) Though it is time consuming, it will really ram home the lesson not to enter shortcut locations :-) BTW - the easy way was to enter consistent locations in the first place. If you are importing files from other people, it's a good idea to always import to a new Legacy database and cleanup the Master lists before adding to your own data. Cathy At 02:09 PM 13/04/2014, you wrote: >I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine >locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much >scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the "find" at the top >isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't >help me. > >What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all >locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: > >Let's say I want to search for Sumter. > >I want to get all of the results like this: > >Georgia, Sumter >Georgia, Sumter County >Georgia, Sumter Co. >GA, Sumter >GA, Sumter County >USA, GA, Sumter >USA, GA Sumter County >USA, Ga. Sumter County >United States, Georgia, Sumter >Sumter > >You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst >nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries >don't even have anything else in them. > >Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they >are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too >long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to >do it that way. > >How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way? > >Many thanks. :) 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
