magnoliasouth wrote: > I have a horrible list of locations. I understand how to combine > locations, but that's not working for me. It involves way too much > scrolling up and down and all around. Also, the "find" at the top > isn't finding anything. It only looks for the first word which doesn't > help me. > > What I need to do is do a search for one word and get a list of all > locations that have that word in its various forms. For example: > > Let's say I want to search for Sumter. > > I want to get all of the results like this: > > Georgia, Sumter > Georgia, Sumter County > Georgia, Sumter Co. > GA, Sumter > GA, Sumter County > USA, GA, Sumter > USA, GA Sumter County > USA, Ga. Sumter County > United States, Georgia, Sumter > Sumter > > You see the problem and I use this one because it's my worst > nightmare. Sumter is all over the place and some location entries > don't even have anything else in them. > > Now as you can see, when I have 300 locations and they're sorted they > are at the top the middle the end and so on. Scrolling take WAY too > long and that's just not an option. I'd rather not bother if I have to > do it that way. > > How can I fix this? Please, tell me there is an easy way?
Don't believe there is an /easy/ way. To reduce the pain a bit, though, you can select the version you want, copy the info, then just paste it over the other source names and then merge dupes. IME, it keeps the detail on each and saves a lot of rekeying. Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
