Hi Di, Welcome to Legacy. You may want to change your practice and enter surnames in mixed case and then use Uppercase in Display or Reports when more appropriate. You make choices regarding this in Options - Customise as you've been told. Here also you can change all caps Surnames to Initial Caps by choosing that option at 3.3 and clicking the Apply button
However, I'm sure your problem is with the little red circles indicating a Potential Problem and you probably don't want to change your standard :-) You can change the criteria used for Potential Problems. Go to Tools - Potential Problems then untick the items you don't want reported or change the age values etc. The one you are looking for re Uppercase Surnames is on the Standardisation Tab - last item. Note Legacy uses Master lists for many things including Surnames. This is so you can enter once and use multiple times. So if you ever want to edit a Surname, you need to do it in the Master List. One way to access the Master Surname List is to click the arrow at the end of the Surname entry field. Cathy Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > > Help File – Search for “Letter Case of Names†> > Brian in CA > > *From:*Diana Bakel [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Problems with Surnames > > I am a new user of Legacy. With other software that I have used I > always enter surnames in uppercase. I have continued this with my > files in Legacy but get a red warning. Please could someone tell me > how to avoid these warnings and make sure they don't reappear. > > Di Bakel > > : 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 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
