Ok by some divine intervention the partners of our firm have decided to take the plunge, however i do not want these transitional bumps in the road to give them a change of heart.
In R14 we draw our foundation, floor plan, electrical and roof plan all on top of each other. We switch between the sheets through a custom button configuration, which i am assuming is just a series of lsp routines. So for instance on our floor plan the exterior walls are drawn at a certain lineweight, but when you switch to electrical all exterior walls, interior and fixtures become the same color and lineweight... and so on and so forth for the rest of the drawings.
They way i was looking to set up 2007 is to create our blockout of the house, and then xref it into each sheet. At that point we wanted to label, dimension and everything that you would do to the different sheets on top of the xref, and then put the conglomeration into the paper space and sheet sets. What we can not figure out is how to import the xref and alter the layers only in the new sheet and not on the original. I was trying to have it be automated or just work like that by default in the template that everyone will draw from. I really hope there are options beyond setting up lsp routines.
Anyway i hope this is not in the wrong area, and it is i apologize. And should this turn out to be something really easy for you guys to figure out, keep in mind i have still been using R14 all these years.