How to hunt one unwanted symbol

[jaimoe1]

Let me utilise bursting knowledge on this forum for something that might look trivial to experts, but it is not to beginners.

So, I was playing with  note blocks to learn to create one. This picture shows note block with one blank row. The row is in fact symbol which I place somewhere, without a text, and now I cannot find it.

Is there some simple clever way to hide everything but symbols in the entire project, so I can find this unwanted one quickly?

[ToanDN]

Edit the Note Block schedule, clink inside the row and go to Highlight in model button on the ribbon.

[jaimoe1]

That sounds really elegant, but didn't work; I receive "no good view could be found". After that, I am offered "show element in view" dialog, but every time I click, it is just "no good view could be found".

[cbcarch]

-Select one of the symbols.

-Then right click and "select all instances in entire project" .

-Then use "lightbulb" tool at bottom of screen.

-Isolate Category.

Does this work?

[ToanDN]

Did you place it in a Legend view by any chance?

[jaimoe1]

That's very close to my desires, but unfortunately, Revit seems to not offer much here: when I made such selection, I had to isolate view by view, and after few views selection vanished, and was not able to use isolate tool any more. 

[jaimoe1 · Accepted solution]

I don't have any legend view, but based on your previous advice, instead of row clicking and trying to see the instance in the view, I right-clicked the row in note block and used "delete row" command.

The warning appeared that not only row will be deleted, but annotation instance as well, but as I don't need that instance anyhow, wherever it was, I just accepted that, and the problem seems to be resolved. 

[ToanDN]

Do you set the schedule to Not Itemize every Instance?  In fact, can you share the Sorting / Grouping tab of the schedule?

[jaimoe1]

I unclicked "itemise every instance", and sorting is set at minimum criteria.

[ToanDN]

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@jaimoe1 wrote:

I unclicked "itemise every instance", and sorting is set at minimum criteria.

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In such case, multiple rows with unmatched value across every column can become a single blank row.  I would itemize rows and inspect them before delete the non-itemized row(s).

[jaimoe1]

I am doing just basic testing, so I didn't have more than 3 symbols, one of which was presented with blank row, and I already deleted that row.

Tryed to itemize each instance as per your suggestion, but did not bring me anything more than these two rows, as I don't have any double instances of annotations.