The author of LTools emailed me privately saying that LTools does not have the ability to change surnames for a focus or tagged group.
It looks like you will have to use the search list results and the Edit tab on the right to individually change the surname for those who are affected. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 18/04/2014 2:30 PM, Scott Hall wrote: > Yea, thanks. I don't want to globally change the surnames, I want to > change it for a select group of people. The name is valid for plenty of > other folks. > > Clearly no option in Legacy itself, I haven't had a chance to see if an > existing LTools does it yet. > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This might help: >> >> Go to > the son's Individual's screen > see the down arrow beside the >> surname> this brings up a list of all surnames in your Legacy program> >> here you can globally change any surname(s) and/or merge surnames. By >> holding down the shift key you can merge many surnames into one. >> >> Anne >> >> I'm stuck on how to do a mass replace for a family name .... at one >> point a son changed the spelling of his surname from that of his >> parents. I've isolated all of his descendants with tagging, but can't >> figure out how to replace the surname for all of the tagged records at >> once ... there are 421 people with this condition, so i don't want to do >> it one-by-one. >>> >>> Can someone tell me? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Scott >>> >> >> >> >> >> 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
