How to link text in blocks.

[colin.184546]

I am an intermediate user of AutoCAD.
I use the same block many times within one drawing file and display it in multiple layout pages. I am trying to find out if there is a way I can link some of the blocks text prompts so if I change the text on one of the blocks, all of the blocks change in the same manor.
Please let me know if this can even be done.
I am using AutoCAD LT 2008.

Thanks

[jaberwok]

Do you mean "text" or do you mean "prompts"?
Do you mean attributes?

Plain text will be the same in all examples of any one block (unless you use the in-place block editor?).

[colin.184546]

Hi, Thanks for any reply. I am stuck.
If I have two blocks that are exactly the same in the same file. When I change the text that is located in one of the prompt fields of one of the blocks in the Edit Attributes window, that appears when you double click on any block that uses prompts, I want it to update both of the blocks that are in that file with the new text that I have just entered in the Edit Attributes window.
Is this possible?

Thanks

[tedg]

Hi, Thanks for any reply. I am stuck.
If I have two blocks that are exactly the same in the same file. When I change the text that is located in one of the prompt fields of one of the blocks in the Edit Attributes window, that appears when you double click on any block that uses prompts, I want it to update both of the blocks that are in that file with the new text that I have just entered in the Edit Attributes window.
Is this possible?

Thanks

You can change the tag values of attributes globally in a drawing.
Check out this thread and this thread.

You can achieve what you want on the command line, but this is a lisp routine from R.K McSwain that does the same thing in one of the above mentioned threads.

(command "._attedit" "_N" "_N" "BLOCKNAME" "TAGNAME" "*" "OLD_STRING" "NEW_STRING")