Thanks, John, that's very helpful. Does the Global Search and Replace recognise leading spaces? If it does, it will limit the possibility of incorrect changes, for example, where English village names of Viking origin end in "dby". >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:47:54 +0000 >From: "Nick Higton" <nick@higton.co.uk> >Subject: [BK] Locations and Sources: Global Search and Replace >To: bk@rootsweb.com > >Is there a safe way to globally amend part of a location and/or source? > >I ask because I am in the process of changing from Chapman Codes to full >locational references. For example, I have a lot of locations of the >type "Wirksworth DBY: [Street]" which I want to amend to "Wirksworth, >Derbyshire, England: {Street}". By default, I would have to amend each >one individually, but could I do a search and replace from " DBY:" to " >Derbyshire, England:"? > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:52:08 +0000 >From: John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> >Subject: [BK] Re: Locations and Sources: Global Search and Replace >To: Nick Higton <nick@higton.co.uk>, "bk@rootsweb.com" > <bk@rootsweb.com> > >To Nick Higton > >First be sure you have a current backup copy of your database (File, Backup Data Files, copy to usb) > >OK, then pick File, Utilities, Global Search and Replace, Change only the Location > >Search for DBY: and change to Derbyshire, England > >That should work fine UNLESS you already have a location that is the same as the new location. In that case you might get a message that there is a duplication. (I can help fix that if you get that message.) > >John Steed >