I've had three emails and two people at conferences ask me how to globally replace attribute text this past week (it's an epidemic!). There are a few ways you can go about doing this chore so let's quickly look at the possibilities.
1. FIND command
Use this low stress command to do a search and replace on attribute values.
2. GATTE Express Tool
This oldie but goodie will also globablly change attribute values for all insertions of a specific block.
And if you need to change the color (or text height, angle, style, etc) of specific attributes (as someone asked me yesterday) try using the -ATTEDIT command. You have to put a dash in front of it to get it to work - otherwise it just gives you the DDATTE command (don't ask me why!). This command works globally as well which is really nice.
A big thank you to the very nice woman who brought me a great magazine to read on the plane! What a sweetheart (sorry I can't remember your name for the life of me here). And an extra big thank you to all of you who hung around yesterday in Toronto asking me to autograph my booklet - you definitely made my head swell (I barely fit through the plane door last night!).
On to Boston tomorrow!
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