Wally, Are you talking about instances in narratives or the master location list? In the Master Location list you can change every instance, and add a "short name" for each location. When you print a report, then you select "Use short location names".
Now if it is in narratives, search and replace works like a dream. I have never tried changing location names via search and replace though. This way, you can have the best of both worlds. I write out my locations in full, as others have mentioned but then I add a "short location name" to them as well. You can name them anything you wish, for the short locations. >From Alderaan to Malibu Beach, to a plot of land. Just remember that it's best to still standardize your short names, so that you don't have to make changes later. Cindy Lloyd On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:21 PM Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Wally > You can do this if you want to. If you have an international audience I > suggest you don't do it for the Long Location and use that when > communicating with non-Americans. eg MA is not one of the state codes I > know. > > This is how: There are tools in the Master Location List to do this. > Click the Options button and then Expand/Contract Location parts. Read > the whole screen and the Help to this screen. > > There are not options for all other countries here so there is another > way. You may need to use it if you haven't kept to the US standard 4 > field locations. > > This is what I use: Search and Replace on Lists - Location for the long > form of the location name and Lists-Location Short for the Short form. > Again read the whole screen and make sure you are only replacing found > text with the replacement text. It's often wise to include the commas to > avoid changing text in the middle of words - especially if you are > expanding. > > Cathy > > > > > Wally Lee <mailto:[email protected]> > > Saturday, 29 June 2019 3:19 AM > > 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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