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From: "William J. Dodd" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Selectively replacing field contents
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:34:19 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, at 23:25:42 -0500, Lee Hoffman/KY <> wrote:

> William J. Dodd wrote:
> >Is there a way to change all occurrences of a given Citation Detail
> >by specifying the desired change only once rather than individually
> >editing each occurrence?
>
> No. You can generate a List of Citations report with a Focus filter of:
> Citation Detail Contains [?] END
> Then enter all or part of the entry that you want to change. This will
> give you a listing of all the citations that have that entry and will show
> the person and tag for which the citation is made. You can then change it
> manually.
>
> Hope this helps -

Yes, it does. Very slick. Laborious, but slick. Thanks.

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, at 09:08:43 -0500, "John Cardinal" <>
wrote:

> My TMG Utility program will make "Find & Replace" style changes to Citation
> Detail text. It currently can not restrict the change to citations that
> reference a particular source or anything like that--it just searches all
> citations, checks for the target text, and changes it when found. This may
> or may not do what you want.

I have downloaded the distribution file, and will give it a try. Thank you.

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