I don't use empty commas unless I truly don't know an internal location
detail.
I include addresses in my location list so have more than 4 parts or
just one if I only know the country.
I always sort my list from right to left and, because I'm consistent
with the way I enter locations from smallest unit to country, all
locations sort together whether I'm looking at country, state
(Australia) or county (England), town or street.
It's really easy to get a list of everyone in a particular town or state
by highlighting all the relevant locations and using Options - Show List.
I include addresses in the Location List because I don't like the way
addresses are handled in Legacy - both the input, the display (they're
quite hidden) and especially the output in reports. If all that changed,
I'd reconsider.
Cathy
Trevor Carlson wrote:
Works very well if you sort the list in reverse order - largest
denomination to smallest - which is what I do. It even allows for a
5th field which I sometimes use (Ward in a city). If I need to search
for a particular city, but don't know exactly where it is, I will just
temporarily reverse my sort, search it, and then put it back after I'm
done.
Would be nice if Legacy had a search function that would search for a
given location name regardless of position, though. That would make
the re-sorting unnecessary.
Thanks,
Trevor
*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sherry
*Sent:* 4-Apr-17 8:49 AM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location list, Place names
The Master Location List doesn't do well with no leading commas. You
can't sort correctly if you select a custom sort and the
Expand/Contract Location Parts (under Options) won't work correctly.
Sherry
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Steve Hayes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
There is no option to "remove" it, though there is an option not to
show it
in reports.
If, say, I know that someone was born in Ohio, USA, I can enter it as
Ohio, USA
and Legacy will display and print it like that.
but I can also enter it as
, , Ohio, USA
to show that the city and county are missing.
And then I can have Legacy print it like that, or to strip away the
leading
commas.
I generally enter just what I know, so I don't put in blank spaces. If I
later find the name of a town where the person was born, I'll just add
that,
like
Columbus, Ohio, USA.
and not
Columbus, , Ohio, USA
--
Steve Hayes
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