Thank you everyone for your response. I have sorted my surnames and now have only a few potential problems.
Di Bakel On 1 June 2015 at 04:10, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ca n 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 > 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
