It is, indeed, possible. Here are the steps:
- Back up your entire ebase folder
- Find only those records that you want to replace
- Read the section in your Filemaker Help (it's more complete than the
Filemaker manual) about "Replace with calculated result"
- Back up your entire ebase folder again
- Read the section in your Filemaker Help about the "Substitute
Function". Check out the examples.
- Back up your entire ebase folder again
- Replace the specific field with your calculated result. If it didn't
work right (it will do exactly what you tell it to), restore from your
backup and start over.
>ok everyone, you all have been great and I really appreciate all the help
>you have given me. I have another question. Is it possible to find only PART
>of a field? as in I want to go and replace all the "St." with "Street" but
>obviously all the streetnames arn't the same so I JUST want it to replace
>that one part of teh field. is this possible?
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