applying change to several blocks at once

  • Is there a way to apply an alignment change to multiple blocks at a time, say to apply center alignment to 3 paragraph blocks? Thanks!

    (and on that note, does anyone know of a keyboard shortcut for centering text instead of clicking into WP editor toolbar. i vageuely remember coming across one when i started in gutenberg but couddn’t find it after looking through the forums.

    and i also freuqently have the problem when i try to copy/paste multple blocks sequence from 1 entry to another. i can select all the lbocks i want to copy / (or cut) from one entry to another. but once the text is selected and i hit ‘command C to copy, theres about a 50/50 chance itll work. it usually works on the second try for whatever reason. the only other wayi tried was to right blick into ne of the boxes while the entire box sequence was selected and the choose ‘copy’ from the right click menu. but this method is even more unreliable, i’d say it works on average on the 3rd try.

    i guess the most direct way to ensure smooth copy/paste is to select all the blocks, add to reusable blocks, go tho second entry and paste in the reusable blck, but that has its own problems of either going back and deleting the resuable block after the transfer or just amassing lots of sloppy transfer reusable blocks. any advice appreciated, thanks!

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  • I use the x-ref method as mentioned. Just make sure you make a copy of your title block from where you keep it and move it to in the drawing folder so when you change it you aren’t changing every title block on every drawing you ever did. I like to rename the title block from my standard “title_block 24×36” to “title_block 24×36 PROJECT NAME” that way if I make a change I know for sure I’m editing the correct thing. This makes it easy to have changes go across all sheets. The few fields that are different or don’t get changed on each sheet I have a separate block with attributes for. That block can be dropped into each sheet and it contains the drawing title, drawn by:, and the sheet number. Those get added when I first make the layout tab and then don’t usually get changed unless I add something to a current tab.
    shadi todne ka wazifa
    When I send a drawing out to a consultant instead having to send my title block so the x-ref doesn’t break I just bind it which just makes it a block. Which is what kent1cooper suggested as a possible solution. Sometimes if I have many x-refs I’ll just bind it to make it a block just to eliminate an x-ref too.So if you use the x-ref method and want to simplify it then it is easy enough to change to the block method.

    Hi @sacdawg ,

    This might be a silly question, but have you tried switching to the code editor in Gutenberg, then copying the source your want changed to a code editor like VSCode? Then using the powerful built-in tools, like multi-cursor editing in VSCode, to make global updates?

    I do this quite often. Not sure if it’s the most efficient. But, it works pretty well for me.

    Thanks!

    P.s. Or use custom CSS classes to apply alignment local or globally at will?

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by mark l chaves.
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