This article shows you how to change the text on many designs at once — retyping a team name across a full roster, fixing a misspelling everywhere it appears, or filling in a coach's name on every poster in a folder — without opening a single design in the editor.
Opening the dialog
- In Studio, select two or more designs in the grid (Shift-click for a range, Cmd-click on Mac or Ctrl-click on Windows/Linux to add individual cards).
- Right-click any selected card, or click the three-dot button (⋯) on it, and choose Bulk edit text….
The item is only available when your selection contains at least two designs and no folders — select folders as well and it stays greyed out.
The dialog header reads Bulk edit text with a badge showing how many designs you picked (for example, 24 designs), and a one-line summary underneath: "Change dynamic text across the selected designs in one pass."
Two ways to view the text
Two tabs at the top of the dialog switch between views. Both edit the same staged changes, so you can move between them freely.
Grouped
The Grouped tab collects every text field in the selection into groups by field name — all the "Team Name" fields together, all the "Player Name" fields together, and so on. Each group has one box at the top: type a value there once and it is applied to every design that has that field.
When every design in a group already holds the same text, that text appears in the box. When they differ, the box is empty and shows (multiple values) — typing into it overwrites all of them, so leave it alone if you only want to change some.
Next to each group name is a short summary: how many designs carry the field, and either ", same value" or ", N values". A group you have changed is marked with an edited badge.
Click a group name to expand it. Underneath you get one row per design — the design's name alongside its own box — so you can adjust a single entry without disturbing the rest of the group.
If a design has a second page, its page-2 text fields appear as their own groups, marked with a p.2 badge so they are never confused with the page-1 field of the same name.
Per-design
The Per-design tab lays the same information out as a table: one row per design, one column per text field, with a dash where a design doesn't have that field. This is the view to use for one-off corrections — scan down a column, spot the odd one out, and fix just that cell.
The table also has a Set all row directly under the column headers. Each box there is labelled Set all… and behaves exactly like a group box in the Grouped tab: type once, apply down the whole column.
With many fields the table scrolls sideways, so keep scrolling right to reach the later columns.
Hiding fields that aren't on every design
A mixed selection — different templates, or the same template at different versions — produces groups that only some designs have. Turn on the Common only switch (top right, in the Grouped tab) to hide any field that doesn't exist on all of the selected designs, leaving only the fields you can safely set across the whole batch. Turn it off again to see everything.
Find & replace
The Find & replace panel sits above the field list and works across every text field of the selection at once — both tabs, both pages, whether or not the field is currently visible.
- Type the text you are looking for in the Find box.
- Type its replacement in the Replace with box. Leave it empty to delete the matched text.
- Check the counter to the right of the buttons before committing. With the Find box empty it reads Replaces across every text field of the selection. As soon as you type, it updates live to Matches N fields in M designs — so you can see the blast radius before you touch anything.
- Click Replace. The Find and Replace boxes clear and a confirmation reports how many fields in how many designs were changed.
Matching is case-sensitive and matches anywhere inside a field, and every occurrence in a field is replaced, not just the first. If nothing matches, the Replace button stays disabled.
Replace only stages the change in the dialog — it is not written to your designs until you save.
Reading the group counts
The number next to a group name — for example, 18 designs — is the count of designs that actually carry that field, not the size of your selection. If you selected 24 designs and a group says 18, six of them don't have that field at all, and typing in the group box will not create it for them.
Some templates repeat the same field more than once in a design (multi-up sheets, for instance). When the number of fields is larger than the number of designs, the summary spells both out — 18 designs (36 fields) — so the counts always add up.
What you can and can't edit here
Only the design's text layers appear in this dialog. Lettering that is part of the template's artwork — decorative type baked into a graphic, borders, logos — is not text you can edit, here or anywhere in a design; it comes from the template and changing it means editing the template itself.
If one of the designs you selected is currently open in an editor, an amber warning appears at the top of the dialog. For a single design it reads: "[Design name]" is open in the editor — a save there may overwrite these changes. For more than one: N selected designs are open in the editor — saves there may overwrite these changes. A save from that editor writes the whole design back and can undo what you do here, so close the editor (or coordinate with whoever has it open) before saving.
Saving
Nothing is written to your designs while you type — every edit is staged in the dialog until you commit it. The bottom-left corner tracks what is pending: No changes yet at the start, then N fields changed as you work.
Click Save changes to write everything in one pass. A confirmation reports how many fields across how many designs were updated, and the grid refreshes with new thumbnails. Click Cancel, or close the dialog, to discard every staged change.
If the save can't be completed, you'll see Bulk edit failed — no changes were saved. The write is all-or-nothing, so your designs are left exactly as they were — reopen the dialog and try again.
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