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Hi Mike No, I want to search for one name and replace with all the variations. Search "Michael Freyder" Replace (add) with Michael Vreider Michael Vreyther Michael Vreither Michael Freither Etc. The replace with names would be added as variations in the Names and Titles dialog box, each as a separat...

Has anyone thought of doing a plug in to find and replace variations of names? Find one name and add all the possible variations for searching. My situation is I moved from FTM where alternate names were not searchable. I have variations like Saettel/Settel/sAEttel with all the German umlats and var...

I'm missing something... this time it ran thru and found two instances, the one I knew of and one other!

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Mike

So I did a test to see how long it would take. Search and replace plugin wasn't slow, it just didn't find my MM to turn it into Maria Magdalena, that's a separate issue. Assuming the top box is what to search for and the bottom box is what to replace it with. Edit Find and Replace looking for the sa...

Before FH I used FTM and it was easy to find and replace as Tony Jones suggested. FA for Francois Antoine etc. But with 90000 people FH takes forever to do a find and replace. Not sure why, I filtered out everything except names and it still just sits and the green bar never moves. I moved to FH bec...

Thanks Folks for all the replies and suggestions. I downloaded CopyQ and will try that. I have a Microsoft Media Pro keyboard that came with software that allowed me to setup macros to certain keys but when I got a Windows 10 computer the software was no longer compatible!!! It stiil runs but someth...

I've searched for a macro or plugin that would allow me to pick from a list of names when entering new people and don't see a way to get this done. I'm entering data from original French microfilms and if I have to type Francois Joseph or Francois Antoine one more time! I found some useful plugins b...