And ALWAYS do a backup before extensive Search & Replace! Bob Hansen
On Mar 26, 2015, at 23:19, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Were you trying to Search and Replace in Sentence Overrides or in the Event > Sentence Definitions? > You certainly can't Search and Replace on the Actual Sentence Definitions - > something I'd like to be able to do but currently isn't available in the > options for Search and Replace. > I rarely use Sentence Overrides so I've never tried to Search and Replace on > them. > > Search and Replace is powerful so you have to check all options carefully and > it's always wise not to jump to "Replace all" before checking it's finding > and replacing what you expect. > I use it a lot on Citation Detail and Text and Event Notes etc when I pick up > a typo or a new look and greater knowledge of deciphering handwriting means I > want to modify what I've entered. Works very well. > > Cathy > > [email protected] wrote: >> >> I tried to modify [leDate] to [Dat e] in events sentences using Event - >> Sentence Override in Search and Replace. >> Result => no modifications whatsoever. >> Georges >> /-------Message original-------/ >> /*De :*/ Gordon Small <mailto:[email protected]> >> /*Date :*/ 2015-03-26 08:02:06 >> /*A :*/ [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> /*Sujet :*/ Re: [LegacyUG] How's the Web Page Output - Legacy v8 >> I used Legacy Search and Replace once. It caused me no end of grief. >> After that experience whenever I needed to I would load my fdb into MS >> Access to do major Search & Replace activity. It's much easier, finds >> things more reliably and I can see all the records that will be >> affected. And if I recall correctly Access has an undo which Legacy >> doesn't. I could be wrong about that though since it's been 4-5 years >> since I had to do it. At any rate I've made the decision, at least for >> now, just to use the Lega cy output, run it through Ltools and make a >> few other mods within the html output. I've got my new site designed >> and I'm currently working on the mods to the Legacy html pages. As >> usual, css is causing me problems. It works fine with my other site >> pages but when I add css from my site css to the Ltools css the Legacy >> pages get all out of whack. So, I'm currently working through that. >> Does anyone know where I can get some whack? :-D >> >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Gordon, >> >> Do you know you can do a Search and Replace within Legacy, which would >> probably do the editing you want OR in the Gedcom in a text editor. >> The Gedcom export also has some options to do with changing formatting >> codes to html. >> >> Cath >> >> Gordon Small wrote: >> >> TMG would be my preferred way for web presentation except for one >> minor detail. I'm pretty sure my legacy output to a GEDCOM file would >> not work. I started using Legacy back in the early days with the >> intent of putting all the info on the web but legacy didn't have the >> capability of outputting "everything" I wanted in their web page >> generator, or it wasn't in the format I wanted it to be in. So, I >> improvised and used a lot of HTML references in the person's "Events" >> that I'm pretty sure won't translate in a GEDCOM export. The fi rst >> time I decided that the Legacy web output wasn't doing what I'd hoped >> I decided to improvise a way to get the output to display the way I >> wanted it to display. Then I had to go back through the database and >> revisit every person. I just don't have the desire to go back through >> all my sources and events and revisit all my documentation *again*. >> Actually, I'm happy with the Legacy output and while updating the web >> isn't a one click event it only takes me a day or so to massage the >> Legacy web output and get it uploaded. >> > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
