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Global Change - Activity Name

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Mon, 2007-01-29 04:57
Emma Seaton
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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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Fri, 2018-05-25 12:57
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Zoltan Palffy
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as mentioned control R find and replace is the fastest and easiest

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Fri, 2018-05-25 09:23
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Kathy Castle
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Below article may be useful to understand the Primavera P6 Global Change Tool

Understanding the Primavera P6 Global Change Tool

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Sun, 2014-04-13 13:25
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wilson loren
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thanks everyone...also learned from you

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Sun, 2007-02-18 23:42
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Chris Radecki
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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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Sun, 2007-02-18 16:14
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Kevin Button
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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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Sat, 2007-02-17 05:29
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Rama Krishnan
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Easy way is export to Excel ActID & Name.
Use Excel to search & replace.
Re-import back

Rama
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Wed, 2007-01-31 21:43
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Kevin Button
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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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Mon, 2007-01-29 05:45
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Karim Mounir
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U don’t need a GC,
Press "Ctrl + R"
Find "Design" and replace all of them with "Sponsor" for example.
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