Irish Family Names

[datalink]

We recently had a fellow whom, being very proud of his Irish heritage, wondered why our system always displayed his name in title case, rather than allowing for a second capital letter in his family name. I figured that this was a simple formatting issue, but I can't seem to turn it off.

When the field was originally defined it had an auto replace calc on it to set the contents of the field to title case, but that is switched off at this point.

The reformatting happens as the name is being keyed; not at commitment.

Anyone have any ideas? At this point it just seems bizarre to me.

[mr_vodka]

It this on version 7? If its a later version, perhaps the auto-complete option is on?

[datalink]

Its v9. I checked for that. Its not auto complete. Its very strange. As the operator types in the last name field it seems to ignore that shift if pressed.

[David Jondreau]

Have you checked the text formatting of the field?

[datalink]

The field has no formatting on it other than font (nothing strange there).

If I delete a character at the begining of the name, the second character, which then becomes the first, instantly goes to cap.

[Lee Smith]

You may have something effecting else wrong here, maybe corruption, or something you just aren't seeing. I would attach a copy of the file, so that we can look, test, etc. too.

BTW, remove any confidential information, or make a No Record Clone.

[mr_vodka]

Can you post a cloned copy of your file?

[Lee Smith]

:giggle:

it's a tie

[mr_vodka]

So it seems... :mickey:

[comment]

The field has no formatting on it other than font (nothing strange there).

Are you sure about that? Go into Layout mode, select the field and choose Format > Text... It's more likely than not that Title Case is checked on there.

[datalink]

I thought of that too and I did check to make sure. What's more I created a new layout and added a fresh copy of the field to that layout. It too, without any formatting on it behaves the same way.

Defining a totally new field and adding it to that same dev layout the same way, it behaves correctly. Its almost like the issue is at the field definition level. But the settings between the original name field and the new one are identical.

[Lee Smith]

It sounds like the data was pasted into the field, and had the Formatting of the Clipboard?

Where is the copy of the file?

Lee

Edited June 2, 2008 by Guest

[comment]

Your description of data being reformatted as you type, without exiting the field, is consistent with layout-level formatting - and no other explanation I can think of. Why don't you attach the file, so we can tell for sure?