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From: JH&K Whitehead <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Search & Replace
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 08:16:09 -0700

Sorry, in my previous message I forgot about word wrap. Here's a version I hope
will be more intelligible:

> Cheri Casper wrote:
>
> > . . . in working with your master place list, I am trying to do a
> > search & replace. However, if the field is empty and I wish to
> > replace it with some text, I get a "fatal error" message, missing
> > expression. So, HOW do you replace an empty field with text? . . .
>
> Cheri,
> In some cases you can use Tools|Master Place List|Search&Replace to
> replace an empty field, but you have to have some field in the S&R
> dialog box filled in.
>
> As an example, I wanted to fill in the Country field for all the
> locations for which I had the state. I did a search & replace for each
> state that existed in my dataset, so a typical dialog looked like:
>
> Search . . . and replace . . .
> . . .
> State: Virginia Virginia
> Country: -USA
> . . .
>
> (I used the exclusion marker hyphen so that "USA" won't generally
> display or print, but I can still keep track of it. I don't use the
> exclusion marker with other countries, because I want them to print.)
>
> So, S&R may or may not save you a lot of work, depending on your
> data and what you want to do. It does give you the opportunity to clean
> up other fields while you're filling in the blanks.
>
> John Whitehead

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