Hi Cynthia,
Do you know how to use Search and Replace in Legacy? (Search > Search
and Replace)
If you want to remove all abbreviations - you can do it with this facility.
It shouldn't take long to replace abbreviations if you've used them
consistently - wherever they are in Legacy (unless in an attached document.)
Just make sure you have <replace only found text> checked - and
include spaces or commas either side of your search as appropriate so
you don't replace ca in cat with California or Canada <vbg>
ie Search for < CA,> and Replace with < California,>
You can let it do it automatically (Replace All) once you're
confident of your criteria - or look at each one and skip those that
are inappropriate.
Cathy
At 10:06 AM 24/03/2006, you wrote:
When I attended the National Genealogical Society Conference in Nashville,
Tennessee last year, I took the Legacy session. There I learned that all of
the 2 letter state abbreviations should all be spelled out for posterity,
along with any other abbreviations. I am still correcting some of my master
lists now! I wish I had known this before I started transcribing all of the
records, especially census records. It is preferred to spell out all
abbreviations.
One such example would be CA which = both California, as a state in the
United States of America and also = Canada, our neighbor to the north.
Cynthia N. Russell
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