Virginia, sorry I am just now responding to your note and to your
location-formatting suggestions! It was in the midst of the LUG note
overload and I figured it would be better to wait until the list settled
back down.
Your idea of doing a global switch off of the USA in the long loaction would
work great except for one thing - those pesky comma place markers! The long
name is very handy for ensuring the master location list will sort nicely.
The short name is great for ensuring "pretty formatting" in most reports.
However, using the long names in ancestor charts would still leave me with
the comma(s) placeholder issue. It would not help in cases where there is a
city, but no county or when only the state is known.
Therefore, the only way I can think of to get the chart formatting to look
how I want is to custom format each location or to see if there is enough
customer pull to convince Legacy to add a third location formatting option,
specifically for charts (which I doubt there is).
Maybe there is another way though. It would be nice to have a switch so
that U.S. states could globally change back and forth from their spelled out
versions to the 2-letter abbreviations for charts and for the word "County"
to be stripped just for charts. Now I know that I am not addressing the
many non-US location issues with this, but maybe someone else can step in
with those naming conventions.
Maybe some other users have thought of other more easy-to-implement options
than the ones above. All I know is that my ancestor chart has to look yucky
in order for all my other reports not to have state names abbreviated and to
have the word "county" spelled out in full.
Other thoughts?
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, GA
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/
P.S. Yes, I have also spent hours editing my location names, but am now
very happy that I have a mostly "clean" list!
Virginia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Gail:
I have the same opinion about the usefulness of the short location name. I
still can't decide what compromise to use and my location list is a mess
which I am now trying to clean up. One idea for a work around would be to
use the Long name for most reports after doing a global switch off of the
USA part. Then use what you have described as the "chart name" in the short
name field and select that for charts. This is the way I am "cleaning up"
my location list by editing each one. I haven't tried this yet-anyone know
why it wouldn't work?
Virginia
Gail wrote (in part):
........... most of my short location names are too long to fit nicely on a
standard pedigree chart. Here's an example of what I would love to have as
an option:
Current Long name: Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia, USA
Current Short name: Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia
Desired Chart name: Bainbridge, Decatur, GA
I hate to give up the word "county" or the spelled-out state name (via the
short location) for most reports and for web pages, but would love to have
one more location name variation choice for charts. I can see though, that
this might make a lot more work in editing location names.
Any thoughts out there for a work-around? Anyone else want to see this
option?
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