After spending a day with technical support, I have come across an issue where a referenced file that is stringing nodes together to form the profile of a feature (such as a curb or tree line) these nodes are geolocated points from a survey and are in our "topo" file. when referenced in they are read-only, but the nodes create a point in which they plot as a visible feature (dot) on the paper. I had sent my file into Bentley to look at it and the issue came about due to the fact that my surveyor is using a 2004 version of microstation/geopak and my version v8i have a compatibility issue. The suggested fix relegates to taking the cell and using the "drop complex" tool to make the nodes individual items. The issue with this is there are hundreds of nodes on the file. He suggested to me to post on the interfacing side of the forum on how to drop a certain cell (as these nodes are all contained within this cell).