Gail, Good questions. And you are right.
I have many locations for which I only know the county and state. While I do enter them as ", Coffee County, AL, USA" I utilize the "Remove one or more leading commas from locations" option on the format tab of the report options. Thus, the report prints as "John Smith was born in Coffee County, AL, USA" instead of "John Smith was born in , Coffee County, AL, USA." There's a pretty good discussion of this on the "Mastering Names, Dates & Places" CD. All in all, though, there is a need to enhance the location tools to accommodate for these and other situations. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail Rich Nestor Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Search and Replace Geoff, this expand/contract feature is nice in theory, but if I remember correctly, there are some glitches (in my opinion) as follows (copying from one of my old notes to the list): 1) Adding or stripping the "USA" is an all-or-nothing thing. You cannot strip the USA label from just the short location. It is removed from both long and short names together. Then your whole list sorting is messed up. 2) The expand/contract feature only works on locations which are formatted with the standard comma placeholders. Therefore it doesn't change my short names unless I first edit them to add these place holders. This defeats the whole purpose of changing my short name, which is so they read nicely in reports. I have a lot of rural ancestors who did not live in a particular town within a county. The contraction feature takes a location like " , Coffee County, Alabama, USA" and turns it into " , Coffee County, AL, USA." In a report, I'd like to see that someone was from Coffee County, Alabama - not from , Coffee County, AL, USA. 3) I also wish there were a way to strip the word "County" from *only* the Short Locations and *only* temporarily so I could print a chart without that extra word. Basically, this expand/contract feature really doesn't help me at all and is confusing to use. I just caution anyone to test this feature on a sample or test database before clicking one of the options. Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net Geoff Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barbara, Why don't you try this really easy method? 1) Click on View > Master Lists > Location > Option button > Expand/Contract 2) Click on Expand Long Location Names. Click Continue. This should unabbreviate the states for you. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On Behalf Of Barbara S. Jobes I have looked though the archives and help section and cannot find the solution to my problem. I am sorry to bring this topic up again. I have decided to replace abbreviated names for states with the full names. I have used this many times and it worked fine. I am in Lists -Location. I have "replace only found text" checked. In the How to Find I have "Find whole word" checked and "Exact" checked. I have tried checking/unchecking different variations and it does not work. It will go though the searching process and then says "no replacements made". There are no spaces and I am typing the abbreviations exactly as I have entered it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Barbara Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
