This is my experience: All dates entered in the Individual information
screen will be a consistent format which you can choose under
Customize/Dates. If you haven't chosen anything it will be doing
something anyway by default. You can change the format on all of them
at the click of a button. Dates entered in the Source Detail box, for
instance, will be whatever you've entered. They don't adjust
automatically as above. I, too, was inconsistent in this one case and
changed them all manually. I was able to shorten the process somewhat
by finding dates that repeated in many places and using Search & Replace
to change them. For example April 29, 2008 changed to 29 April 2008.
I must be missing something in your question as you suggest that the CSV
export somehow overrides what Legacy has done to make your dates
consistent.
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JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/jlog.html
Kris wrote:
I've been lazy entering my dates and never gave it a second thought
since Legacy formats them so beautifully for me. However, I realize
now the error of my ways since I exported to a CSV file and my dates
are a mess -- an accurate mess, but a mess.
Since the dates were exported in the same way as they were entered,
i.e., MM/DD/YYYY or DD Mon YYYY, whatever felt right at the time,
apparently, I have several different date formats in my CSV file and
the spreadsheet I'm importing it to is giving me dirty looks.
Is there any easy way to fix this? Or do I just need to go back, fix
them all, and strive for consistency in the future?
Thanks!
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