To late I already have it this way and don't want to change the format now. I just need a program that will take the spaces out of the names. I am also adding information to the names and some of the pictures aren't that clear to see the dates. I have done all my cemeteries that way and people seem to like them that way. Wanda Matthew 5 - 7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Nichols Bennett" <nichols1836@windstream.net> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:59 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Wanda.... Excel and photo help >I had that problem with over 6000 obits... what I did was have the obits in >folders, A, B, C, etc... > > The obits had been named like this... Abb, Carl Earl. > > So I used the drag & drop method and from the thumb drive I got the obits > on, I just uploaded them without putting anything in my county webpages > files except a link to them... the comma's and spaces did not cause a > problem doing it that way. > > Look here at the obit page on Houston County and see the link to Roy > Smiths obituary files... click on the link and you will see the folder > names, open a folder and you will see what I am saying... > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhousto/obituaries.htm > > So you might want to make a link say: So & So's photo's of San Geranimo > Cemetery.... then let them go look instead of making individual links for > individual names from a page... > > Just a thought.... > > Billie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wanda Qualls > To: Sue Tackel ; txgen@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:34 PM > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > > > Does it take the spaces out. I have the same problem with pictures with > spaces sent to me. I have two ladies taking pictures. One sends them > the > way I like it but the other sent over 1000 with the names having spaces. > Right now the San Geronimo Cemetery has 3,119 pictures with links to > them. > I started with one file and when that got to big I broke it down to A-C > etc. > So far I have broken it down several times. I have 16 files now with > links > to those pictures. Wanda > Matthew 5 - 7 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Tackel" <sue@wisecountytexas.info> > To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:20 PM > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > > > > There's a free photo program called Irfan View that we use all the > > time. > > Link to download - http://www.irfanview.com/ > > It will do just about everything the expensive photo programs will > do, > > plus it will "batch rename" a folder full of pictures in one step. > > Sue > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Norman M. Lewis, Jr." <treechaser@gmail.com> > > To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:20 PM > > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > > > > > >>I might be able to help. Does the excel file have the name of the > related > >> photo? If you will email me (treechaser@gmail.com) one of the excel > >> files, > >> I will be able to determine if I can be of any help. > >> > >> Norm Lewis > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > >> Behalf Of eleanorcol > >> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 5:51 PM > >> To: txgen-l@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > >> > >> I have a wonderful lady who has done a lot of work on transcribing > >> cemeteries and taking pictures in Grimes County. She recently sent me > >> several CD's of listings and photos. My problem is that I don't have > >> much > >> time to work on the website. Also, she sent the listings in excel. > Is > >> there an easy way to save this file in a format that I can add links > to > >> the > >> pictures? Also she saved the pictures with names that have spaces and > >> hyphens that rootsweb won't accept. So in order to upload I have to > copy > >> them to my computer and then rename each one. Is there an easier way > to > >> do > >> this? I'm not particularly computer savvy, especially on new things. > >> > >> Eleanor Colson > >> Grimes County TXGenWeb > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > >> in > >> the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >