Want to be able to search locations - issues.

Legacy has some tremendous search capabilities for people records in countless variants, which are enhanced by the use of tags, etc. But one of the major failings in my opinion is the ability to search Locations.

Adjusting place names is part of my "do over". I want to search the Location List for certain words/names. I am not talking about finding what records/people use a location with a given word. I want a simple list of all the locations that contain that word.

I'll use Washington as an example. It can appear as a state, a county, a township or a city and maybe a few other things. But you cannot easily search for all the place names with the word Washington and see those places in a handy list. Maybe you'd like to change the name of one or more of them to Washingbury, or whatever suits your fancy. The Find window on the Location List only works with the Sort selection you have established - it won't find a word anywhere in the place name. The Search function in Legacy only searches for people records.

Sorting the entire Location List in 4 or 5 or 6 different ways and tagging selected locations can work, but it is also tedious, repetitive and one can only hope they have caught all the permutations, including the right number of commas, etc. Search and Replace can also work but offers very little context and Replace choices are final unless you remember exactly what record you changed, if you need to go back and fix.

Has anyone found an easier method and, if so, what is the trick? Or has anyone raised this with Legacy and, if so, what sort of response came back? As an aside, searching Sources for given words poses the same issues.