Laura G. wrote: > A sample of an unexpected result. Several years ago I thought I would > change my old way of two-character State identificatio. Think Iowa > was plentiful, and simple, I asked for a global replacement for IA to > Iowa. Pennsylvaniowa, plu s several other such items came up. I gave up! > > Laura I have a DOS (works under Windows of course) version of a tool named 'm4' that does whole word substitution only. It only works on text files so you would have to use it at the GEDCOM level but I'm sure that it is free to share. (It comes from the unix world. and was adapted to DOS by someone who shared it freely.) > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Regina Barry" > <rmbarry1066@earthlink.net> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:50 AM > Subject: [PAF-5] RE: Correcting spelling of names > > >> If you have not imported the GEDCOM, the replace function in Wordpad or >> Notepad works great. >> >> If you already have imported the GEDOM, go to Tools, Global Search and >> Replace, and select Full Name from the pull down option list. >> >> If there's >lots< of variation on the spelling, you'll need to do >> each one. >> >> BE SURE to do a backup before doing any Global Search and Replace - one >> slip can cause very unexpected and unwanted results. >> >> Regina Barry * rmbarry1066@earthlink.net * >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rbarry4145/index.htm >> Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those >> who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >> FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >> Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! >> http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> >> > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/ > > > >