Find and replace bad formatting in notes

[thomprod]

The event sentences in a standard Register Report end with a period followed by a source number for footnotes. On some of my own manually-entered notes, I have ended a sentence with the source number followed by a period. Most people probably don't care about this discrepancy, but it bugs me when I see it and I'd like all of my source citations to be consistant in format. I have close to 5000 people in my Family File, with at least 70% containing notes with source citations. Does Reunion have a way of filtering the records containing these (perhaps using Advanced Find) so I can fix them, without having to do it all manually?

He was born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on 5 Oct 1977.1842
Living in Tampa, Florida1843. Named for his great grandfather xxxxx xxxxxxx, according to his mother Judy1558.

[Deb]

...I have close to 5000 people in my Family File, with at least 70% containing notes with source citations. Does Reunion have a way of filtering the records containing these (perhaps using Advanced Find) so I can fix them, without having to do it all manually?

If I'm understanding this portion of your note correctly, the citations are appearing in Notes fields. If this is the case, you could use Reunion's Advanced Find to find all notes with more than 0 citations. I.e., choose Find -> Advanced Find and select these Conditions...

# of Citations -> Note -> Any Note ... More Than ... 0

I hope you find this helpful in fixing going through them

[thomprod]

...I hope you find this helpful in fixing going through them

Deb, I finally have some time to work on this (over a year later!) and found that it yielded just over 1000 people with at least one citation in their note. Of course some already have the citation after the period, as I want it, but this does help narrow the people down. Wish there was a way to search for the string <citation> <period>.

[Deb]

Deb, I finally have some time to work on this (over a year later!) and found that it yielded just over 1000 people with at least one citation in their note. Of course some already have the citation after the period, as I want it, but this does help narrow the people down. Wish there was a way to search for the string <citation> <period>.

I cannot think of a way to do that particular search. So, I'll add your request to our wish list. As with all feature requests, I cannot make any promises as to when or if it will be implemented. But, I can promise it will be considered by our developers as they work to improve Reunion.