Hi Rick,
In the simplest form (read my caution)...
Go to "Search/Search Replace".
In the pop up window...
Find where: Lists-Location
Find what: TX
Replacement Text: Texas
Anywhere in the field
Replace only found text with replacement test
Caution:
doing as above will work, however it could change every letter combination of
tx to Texas. I prefer to be more specific by...
Find what: , TX
Replacement text: , Texas
or: , TX, USA to , Texas, USA
then I'm pretty sure to get the results I want.
You may want to do the same in List-Location Short, although many will leave
the TX in the short version of the location.
TX is fairly safe, as there aren't many words with that combination. If you
were doing OH you could get Ohioio, as the Oh in Ohio has been replaced with
Ohio. As in: replace "IN" with "Indiana" and get " IllIndianaois ". I think
you see the need to think it through before doing the replacement.
Another caution, as with any of these significant operations - do a back up
first.
Bob
From: Rick Koelz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 12:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] Find/Replace Address Data
Is there a way to do a FIND and REPLACE on my Master Locations?
Such as replace all the TX values with Texas.
Thanks
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