to speed it up you can go into the "sytems options" and then under "drawing options" select the drawing template you are using. all those items below the drawing options box are assigned to the template selected. Change the characters there and then click the gear symbol next to the drawing options and "add to project". That will bring all the chages to the project at once. Then each drawing that you open will have the changes already made.
It works from project to system also. ***And would be a good idea to save from the project level up to the system level first that way any changes you made while working on that project will be retained. Then do the above and you'll have a good project level drawing template with all the attributes you want.***
your welcome Doug. I've been using the drawing templates function more and more over the last bunch of plans I've drawn and it is really a useful feature. Almost as useful as the Builing Options....