Class names-how to join 2 into 1?

Posted by John Polasek on January 12, 2009, 2:33 pm

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I established a class name (say Jack) and later, accidentally created
Jill, for the same property. Is there any way to coalesce these in
Q2005? . (I think I asked this before, sorry).
John Polasek

Posted by Laura on January 12, 2009, 9:54 pm

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>I established a class name (say Jack) and later, accidentally created

> Jill, for the same property. Is there any way to coalesce these in

> Q2005? . (I think I asked this before, sorry).

> John Polasek

In current versions you can merge the 2 classes. Open the Class list and
edit one of them. Change the name to the other one and click okay to save
it. It will warn you that the name already exists, do you want to merge
them? Click okay.

Hopefully, that feature exists in 2005 too.

Posted by John Polasek on January 12, 2009, 10:36 pm

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wrote:

>>I established a class name (say Jack) and later, accidentally created

>> Jill, for the same property. Is there any way to coalesce these in

>> Q2005? . (I think I asked this before, sorry).

>> John Polasek

>In current versions you can merge the 2 classes. Open the Class list and

>edit one of them. Change the name to the other one and click okay to save

>it. It will warn you that the name already exists, do you want to merge

>them? Click okay.

>Hopefully, that feature exists in 2005 too.

The response is "That name is already in use. Try another one". So the
option is foreclosed it looks like.
Thank you for your prompt response.

Posted by John Polasek on January 14, 2009, 10:15 am

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wrote:

>wrote:

>>>I established a class name (say Jack) and later, accidentally created

>>> Jill, for the same property. Is there any way to coalesce these in

>>> Q2005? . (I think I asked this before, sorry).

>>> John Polasek

>>In current versions you can merge the 2 classes. Open the Class list and

>>edit one of them. Change the name to the other one and click okay to save

>>it. It will warn you that the name already exists, do you want to merge

>>them? Click okay.

>>Hopefully, that feature exists in 2005 too.

>The response is "That name is already in use. Try another one". So the

>option is foreclosed it looks like.

>Thank you for your prompt response.

I want to thank Oilcan for emailing me a couple of workarounds that I
will try soon as possible. I was unable to respond by email, as Oilcan
was not sufficient address.
John Polasek

Posted by John Polasek on January 14, 2009, 9:40 pm

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wrote:

>>I established a class name (say Jack) and later, accidentally created

>> Jill, for the same property. Is there any way to coalesce these in

>> Q2005? . (I think I asked this before, sorry).

>> John Polasek

>In current versions you can merge the 2 classes. Open the Class list and

>edit one of them. Change the name to the other one and click okay to save

>it. It will warn you that the name already exists, do you want to merge

>them? Click okay.

>Hopefully, that feature exists in 2005 too.

I can do it with a find-all of one category/class, and manually double
click each one and change it to the other class, but this is not a
practical solution. Nor is there a find and replace.
John P