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Thanks for the informative reply...  I replaced "thisApplication.ActiveDocument" which worked for a day or so and then the error came back, probably something by mistake...

 

I am hoping to get permission to share the data set with you later today but am pretty sure I can not share it publicly, would that be ok and how would I do that?  I understand its not your job and you are under no obligation to help...

 

Basically, what I am trying to do is create a new drawing with a pull down menu of the type of drawing I intend to be working on.  The reason I have gone down the sheet format insert route is because the drawing types are made up of a stack of sketched symbols and some of them have prompted entries that I do not want to pop up everytime a new drawing or sheet is created.

 

The first rule that fires is an external rule event triggered by drawings, new document.  I believe this has to be external because the internal rules do not exist until the drawing is created.  This fires up an internal form to select a sheet format and then an internal rule to place that sheet format, then deletes the first sheet.  The same rule without the delete sheet is also used to add new sheets to that drawing, again to produce a sheet without all of the prompted entries in the sketched symbols popping up.

 

I tried another approach previously of using code to build these sheets, placing the symbols in specific places and editing the prompted entries on the sketched symbols placing a "SPACE" automatically but this seemed very clunky and sheet formats looked much better in terms of modifying in the future