FIND AND REPLACE TEXT STYLE

I am placing notes that call out material and below that callout and a note.

My workflow is tedious.

Place note

TYPE IN THE MATERIAL CALLOUT WITH A  TEXTSYLE THAT HAS A BOX AROUND THE MATERIAL CALLOUT

THEN FOR THE LINES BELOW, I SELECT A NEW STYLE WITHOUT THE BOX.

I would like to automate this

I thought a good way would be

1. place all notes without the box

2. Select all notes

3. find all the text WD1 and replace the text-style for only WD1

anyway I could do this? Batch check text style

what would be nice is to have a list of common callouts that would be changed to have the text-style changed

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  • and I need some programming magic that's above my skill set

    Kirk

    I Wish Cadland was Reality

  • Simple solution is to place one Note with correct format, copy it, edit.

    Connect r17 10.17.2.61 self-employed-Unpaid Beta tester for Bentley

  • Yep, that makes sense. Place it correctly, then just copy and edit. Notes are SO much easier to place correctly the first time than they are to try to change style after they are placed. It probably wouldn't take significantly more time than typing and placing them all.

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

        

  • That is what Im trying to avoid. I'm placing the note with the 1st line with one textstyle and then switching styles on the lines below.

    Why place it , copy and edit ? 

    This is how I place the note.

    Kirk

    I Wish Cadland was Reality

  • Because it's easier and faster than typing each note out and changing styles back and forth. Place one note with the styles the way you want them, and it's already set up.

    Your only real options are to place every note every time, switching styles as you type
    or
    to place one note with the correct styles, copy it all over and edit it as needed.

    There are no native tools that can do what you are asking (find part of a note and change style on only those characters). You would have to create something custom, and I think it could be a rather complex tool due to the inflexibility of Note elements.

    The closest I can think of would be a manual process of placing all the notes with one style, using Find (of Find/replace text) to work through your drawing to find the string you want to change, and manually editing the text to change the style of that string. But that's nothing you could do with a batch process - it would be one element at a time.

    I don't know if Text favorites could simplify the note placement in the first place...Maybe if you had one favorite for the first part and another favorite for the second part it might save you a step or two while placing the notes. But I haven't played around with text favorites yet enough to know.

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

        

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  • Because it's easier and faster than typing each note out and changing styles back and forth. Place one note with the styles the way you want them, and it's already set up.

    Your only real options are to place every note every time, switching styles as you type
    or
    to place one note with the correct styles, copy it all over and edit it as needed.

    There are no native tools that can do what you are asking (find part of a note and change style on only those characters). You would have to create something custom, and I think it could be a rather complex tool due to the inflexibility of Note elements.

    The closest I can think of would be a manual process of placing all the notes with one style, using Find (of Find/replace text) to work through your drawing to find the string you want to change, and manually editing the text to change the style of that string. But that's nothing you could do with a batch process - it would be one element at a time.

    I don't know if Text favorites could simplify the note placement in the first place...Maybe if you had one favorite for the first part and another favorite for the second part it might save you a step or two while placing the notes. But I haven't played around with text favorites yet enough to know.

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

        

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