Find and Rename Units
Use this command to find and replace the existing units in the flowsheet. When you click Find & Rename Units on the View menu, the Find & Rename Units window appears, which has the following tabs in it:
Find: Use the Find tab to show a list of all the units available in the flowsheet. When you select a unit from this list, the flowsheet diagram scrolls to bring the selected unit to the center of the current draw area.
Rename: Use the Rename tab to rename the required units available in the flowsheet at one go. To rename the units, enter the original name of the unit in the Search for Unit field and new name in the Replace with field, click Preview, and then click Apply/OK. If necessary, click Clear to clear the changes in the New Name column, Search for Unit field, and Replace with field. If there are duplicate entries for name, the conflicts are highlighted in red color and status text shows the number of conflicts. You can click the column to sort the conflicts.
The Find & Rename Units window stays open even when you work on the draw area. To dismiss the window, click Close.
If the Find & Rename Units window is open, the Preview column is not empty, and you attempt to make any changes to the flowsheet, the following error message appears: “You must apply changes to stream names before making changes to flowsheet.”
Click any of the following buttons available on the message box to get the required results:
Apply button: It applies all your changes to the database. Apply button may become unavailable if there are any conflicts in the preview column.
Clear button: It clears the Preview column, Search for Stream field, and Replace With field.
Cancel button: It closes the message box.
The grid in the Find & Rename Units window allows copying data from or to an MS Excel sheet. Following are different options available to copy or paste data:
Copy Options
Select and copy the content of any of the following either by right-clicking them and then clicking Copy or by pressing Ctrl+C on the Keyboard:
Single Cell
Single Row
Range of Cells
Column
Grid
Tip: You can select the data using the following methods.
Range of Cells: Click the first cell, press Ctrl+Shift on the keyboard, and then click the last cell of the range.
Entire Column: Click the column header.
Grid: Press Ctrl+A on the keyboard.
Paste Options
The Existing Name column (first column) is read-only. Therefore, the paste option in it is unavailable. Any attempt to paste data in it will override the content of the Preview column (second column).
The data pasted in a cell will only be accommodated till the last row of the grid irrespective of the size of the data on the clipboard.
The data from clipboard can be pasted only if:
The first column is not empty.
The data contains only alphabets, numbers, and the allowed special characters (plus, minus, underscore, and period: + - _ .) . If you try to paste the unallowed special characters, the following error message appears: “The paste operation could not be completed because invalid data was encountered for the editable fields in the grid.”
The data contains 12 or lesser characters. The extra characters will be truncated.
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