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Global Change - Activity Name

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Emma SeatonMember for 21 years 1 month
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OK, Monday morning brain death syndrom hits once again! I need to change a stack of activities which are all similar but different: ie...

I have a list of activities like this:

Design 07/08 P1
Design 07/08 P2
Design 07/08 P3
Design 07/08 P4 and so on and so on....(don’t ask!!)

I want to change the word ’Design’ to ’Sponsor’ (for example).... does anyone have a good global change that can do this? I’m sure there’s a way to do it....

In some cases the word to change is not the first one so trimming off the first 6 characters will not work.

Cheers

Emma

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    Karim Mounir ·
    #1
    U don’t need a GC,
    Press "Ctrl + R"
    Find "Design" and replace all of them with "Sponsor" for example.
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    Kevin Button ·
    #2
    And before you do the find & replace thing, make sure your schedule is sorted by anything other than activity name. Otherwise after each change, the activities will be reordered and the search & replace might stop before everything is finished.

    KB
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    Rama Krishnan ·
    #3
    Easy way is export to Excel ActID & Name.
    Use Excel to search & replace.
    Re-import back

    Rama
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    Kevin Button ·
    #4
    Why would you bother with excel to search and replace single words? You can do it just as easily in Primavera without the overheads of an export and import.
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    Chris Radecki ·
    #5
    This thread has made my day.

    I know that it seems obvious but ......

    Thanks for the question. Thanks for the answer.

    Agree with KB - why would you use excel - this is easy.
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    Wilson Loren ·
    #6

    thanks everyone...also

    thanks everyone...also learned from you

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    Kathy Castle ·
    #7

    Below article may be useful

    Below article may be useful to understand the Primavera P6 Global Change Tool

    Understanding the Primavera P6 Global Change Tool

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    Zoltan Palffy ·
    #8

    as mentioned control R find

    as mentioned control R find and replace is the fastest and easiest

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