The problem I have with this is that if I want to do several different Area Schemes, all mostly similar, but each one with some slight modifications to them, I have to build each one entirely from scratch! This is a waste of time. The only way around this is to save as a new file, which is archaic and against what Revit is about.
I've instead been doing a work around with using Floors instead of areas to have the ability to impliment design options as well as using phasing. Then I use custom filters to make categories of floors different colors. It's much more free. The only downside is that Floor Tags do not have the ability to include their area parameter into the tag. There seems to be several instances in Revit where you cannot pick certain system family instance parameters for tagging.
Hope that makes sense.
