I would certainly start by right clicking your assembly and/or subassemblies in prospector and get real familiar with that tab called "codes". You will see a label styles column and that is where I think you can start setting styles to be visible/non-visible.
You kinda type like a guy sounds that I went to college with.
Aaron Short by chance?
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