Another way to work on locations that may be useful is to use the Search and Replace from the Search Ribbon. Find where: Lists-Location [for the long name] Lists-Location Short [for the short name]
Depending on what needs fixing, this may be an option you've overlooked Bonnie. Cathy William Hoff wrote: > > I for one dislike the comma routine. Not clean presentation. It's a > little extra effort but much prefer to enter the identity for a > county, township, parish than to show missing data by using commas. I > can see what's missing. If this causes extra effort because of > software, so be it. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Bonnie Samuel <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> >> I am in process of correcting Locations, one by one...really don't >> see another way to do it particularly given what you've just said, >> Brian! Oh well, good way to review....I'm down to the "M's". >> >> On Sep 22, 2014, at 02:47 PM, Brian/Support >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> >>> One thing that can cause that option to fail is not using the four >>> levels with comma separations for missing levels form for locations. >>> All >>> your locations have to be in the form city, county, state, country and >>> if one of the levels is missing you must still include the comma for >>> that level. city, , state, country for example. Address, city, county, >>> state, country will also cause a failure because there are five levels. >>> >>> Brian >>> Customer Support >>> Millennia Corporation >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >>> >>> >>> On 22 Sep 2014 10:26 AM, Bonnie Samuel wrote: >>> > I am using Legacy 8 on a Mac with Parallels. I say that as maybe it >>> is why >>> > certains "options" don't seem to work...or is it? On the Location >>> list there is >>> > a "options" drop down list of choices. One is enable expanding all >>> state >>> > abbreviations to full spelling....and the other is to add USA to >>> all American >>> > states. Neither works for me or perhaps I am not doing it properly. >>> I can not >>> > find a help screen that gives further instructions. Help please and >>> 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
