I prefer to use the full name for a province/state/etc. in case of another part of the world using the same two-letter abbreviation. For exmpale, I enter Ottawa, Ontario, Canada rather than Ottawa, ON, CA (you will note that CA is used as the abbreviation for both California and Canada.
Roberta Schwalm On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM Bobby Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to ask the question “What are the problems with state > abbreviations?” I, for one would not recommend this action. However, if > you choose to do this, use the master locations list to edit your locations > entered in location fields. For those in notes and other places you would > need to use search and replace. > > Bobby > > Sent form my TRS 80 Mod III > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> *On > Behalf Of *Wally Lee > *Sent:* Friday, June 28, 2019 3:20 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Can global edits be made in Legacy? > > > > This is my first post to the mailing list. > > I wish to abbreviate place names in my database and I hope to be able to > format my individual changes only once and then apply that change to all > instances of this name in the database. > > > > For instance, if I wish to change "Massachusetts" to "MA" in every > instance that it is found, how would I accomplish this without changing > every individual instance? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Peter > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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