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AnejoDave

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Does anybody have any tips, tricks, workarounds, etc. for making large and very repetitive scheudules more readable?

For example I have a list of 100+ items that have 11 columns of numbers and one of notes.  There might be 10 items in a row that have identical numbers but different notes.  Then a row with a single fractional change followed by another 10 items that are identical as before.  It's crazy but that's the nature of the project.

What I'd really like is to be able to have every other or every 2 lines have some shading.  Is this possible or something similar?

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It looks like we will have some of this in 2014 but otherwise you can:

1. Split your schedule in multiples and seperate them ... maybe every 10 lines?
2. Add linework on your sheet every 10 lines or whatever.
3. You could get real smart and add multiple fake records with no data, then using an index, get those to sort every 10 lines or so.  << NOT EASY BUT I COULD DO IT
4. We use an index field on each end of our shedule.  Say it's a Room schedule sorted by Room Number.  Our last filed is a calculated field set to equal room number (Don't need the =) then with the title changed to room number.

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I can wait till R2014 to come out.  I only generate the schedule.  The poor saps in the field have to read it.  I'm only trying to be a nice guy on this so I can growl at them for other things easier.

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Your welcome!

I don't get it.  What would you do in cad? .... Well - ???? - you don't have any smart schedules so ???? ... you draw lines.  You add shading overtop of your lines.  Guess what.  In Revit, you can still do all the dumb things you did in CAD.

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The schedules are live.  The information is dull enough to make you wish you were dead.  I guess I could draw over it but that's the kind of thing we're not doing.  

Thanks for the help.  

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So is the glass half full or half empty.  I think it is more than half full.

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Half full means there is room for vodka.  I like where this is going.

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