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Finding hyphenated names

Leah Tofte-Dorr
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I am trying to figure out why the second name in a hyphenated last name does not show up in a find. For example, Tofte-Dorr does not show up in a find for Dorr. Is there a way that I could modify the find to include the hyphenated ones?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hey!

If you put an asterick (*) before the search criteria (it might help to put one after, too... but i'm not 100% sure) you are looking for, you should get that name as a result.

Hope that helps :

Yes, use the asterisk. Note that in FM7/8 this is not required as a hyphen is a valid separator.

The down-side of this is that *dorr will also find matadorr, torreadorr and Isidorr.

Another option is to search in a calculation field where hyphens are substituted with spaces.

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  • Newbies

Thanks so much for your quick responses.

For now the * works and I will try the calculation field to separate the names.

Thanks again.

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