Richard, Another option not mentioned by anyone is to only complete the first surname entry and fill in the blank surnames when you have finished e.g. McCLEAN by selecting Edit, Fill down (using WinBMD). Having said that why not just hit the Return key on the next line and it copies the entry above. Graham Hall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> To: <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:58 PM Subject: A poser with "Mc" names We are transcribing 1953 Deaths, a series of scans in which the surname appears in CAPITALS. Unfortunately the useful Option "Surnames in All-Caps" doesn't work for the names like McCLEAN, McDONALD etc. as the lower-case 'c' will not appear. Surely this problem has arisen many times before, but I can find no solution on the TKB. Help! Richard Oliver Abingdon, Oxfordshire richol@arrakis.es

----- Message from ghall@btinternet.com ---------     Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 10:41:46 +0100     From: GRAHAM HALL <ghall@btinternet.com> Reply-To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: A poser with "Mc" names       To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com       Cc: richol@arrakis.es > Richard, > > Another option not mentioned by anyone is to only complete the first surname > entry and fill in the blank surnames when you have finished e.g. McCLEAN by > selecting Edit, Fill down (using WinBMD). Having said that why not just hit > the Return key on the next line and it copies the entry above. > > Graham Hall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> > To: <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:58 PM > Subject: A poser with "Mc" names > > > We are transcribing 1953 Deaths, a series of scans in which the surname > appears in CAPITALS.   Unfortunately the useful Option "Surnames in > All-Caps" doesn't work for the names like McCLEAN, McDONALD etc. as the > lower-case 'c' will not appear.  Surely this problem has arisen many times > before, but I can find no solution on the TKB. > > Help! > > Richard Oliver > Abingdon, Oxfordshire > richol@arrakis.es > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive  > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to  > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe'  > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----- End message from ghall@btinternet.com -----

Another option (which works with any list of identical surnames, and is a great time-saver) is to type the first entry, then before pressing RETURN press the F2 key.  This will automatically copy the surname into the first field on the following line, and take you straight to the forename field.  When you reach the last one in the list, press F2 again to switch this feature off.   HTH.   Sue (Apologies if you get this twice - my computer has been having some very strange interludes lately!) ----- Message from ghall@btinternet.com ---------     Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 10:41:46 +0100     From: GRAHAM HALL <ghall@btinternet.com> Reply-To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: A poser with "Mc" names       To: freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com       Cc: richol@arrakis.es > Richard, > > Another option not mentioned by anyone is to only complete the first surname > entry and fill in the blank surnames when you have finished e.g. McCLEAN by > selecting Edit, Fill down (using WinBMD). Having said that why not just hit > the Return key on the next line and it copies the entry above. > > Graham Hall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Oliver" <richol@arrakis.es> > To: <freebmd-admins@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:58 PM > Subject: A poser with "Mc" names > > > We are transcribing 1953 Deaths, a series of scans in which the surname > appears in CAPITALS.   Unfortunately the useful Option "Surnames in > All-Caps" doesn't work for the names like McCLEAN, McDONALD etc. as the > lower-case 'c' will not appear.  Surely this problem has arisen many times > before, but I can find no solution on the TKB. > > Help! > > Richard Oliver > Abingdon, Oxfordshire > richol@arrakis.es > > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive  > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to  > FREEBMD-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe'  > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----- End message from ghall@btinternet.com -----