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Paula_Mourad
Paula_Mourad
New Participant
October 6, 2023
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Change multiple icons at the same time

I’ve designed a data table, and one of the columns has icons. Different designs require different icons. Currently, I’m selecting each icon, one by one and changing them manually (it takes a lot of time).

It would be nice if we had a “replace all” tool. That way, I would be able to select all my “edit” icons and replace them with a “trash” icon.

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Gleb
GlebSolution
Power Member
October 16, 2023

There are many ways to select the icons you need which are much less time consuming. A couple ideas:

  1. Drag the selection area around the icons while holding Cmd / Ctrl.

  2. Use Selection Colors feature to select objects with the color red for example and then Shift + Enter to select the instances that contain the vector objects.

  3. Cmd + Click every icon to select vector objects and then Shift + Enter.

  4. Use some kind of plugin that allows you to select objects based on criteria, e.g. name.

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Uche
October 14, 2023

Im presently faced with the same challenge.
Why cant the find and replace feature work for icons as well?

Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
October 14, 2023

You can select the icons and swap them all in the right panel.

Paula_Mourad
Paula_MouradAuthor
New Participant
October 16, 2023

Right, but if the icons are within their own groups, then I have to open all group layers and that could take some time too.

Gleb
GlebSolution
Power Member
October 16, 2023

There are many ways to select the icons you need which are much less time consuming. A couple ideas:

  1. Drag the selection area around the icons while holding Cmd / Ctrl.

  2. Use Selection Colors feature to select objects with the color red for example and then Shift + Enter to select the instances that contain the vector objects.

  3. Cmd + Click every icon to select vector objects and then Shift + Enter.

  4. Use some kind of plugin that allows you to select objects based on criteria, e.g. name.

Paula_Mourad
Paula_MouradAuthor
New Participant
October 16, 2023

Thanks for this. The one functionality that isn’t working for me, is Shift + Enter. It selects other elements.

Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
October 17, 2023

Works for me

Paula_Mourad
Paula_MouradAuthor
New Participant
October 18, 2023

I got it now! Thank you so much!

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