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You can use letters as well as numbers when you create the grid

I'm a newbie myself as far as understanding how to modify the labels, but I did find a rather laborious way of doing it.

Pick the properties of the grid (this is something I forgot to do, but quite important if you want to regroup everything at the end).

Hide everything else and explode the grid.

Use Change Properties and right click to select all the labels by entity type

Do It, and use the Pick text properties button to set the size.

It's an undoable operation, so if you get the wrong size the first time just undo and try again.

I think it might be quite inconvenient to continue work with the grid exploded like that, so maybe best to regroup the labels and the grid when you are done. If (unlike me) you remembered to pick the grid's properties before you started that's just a simple operation because the grid will end up grouped on the right sheet and layer the moment you regroup it.

Well, you could scale the png file itself in GIMP or some other bitmap editor and reimport it - ready scaled to be the right size once it's imported.

I really do recommend you opt for the temporary pain of moving your symbol folders and your catalogue files into the Symbols folder and using relative references as you repair the catalogues and map files. Once you've done it on one machine you can copy the resulting folders and catalogues to the other machine and put them in the same place in that Symbols folder. That way, you won't ever have to carry on remaking catalogues every time you sit at the other machine. That would be a pain that will never go away.

LOL! I don't hate you.

If you intend to keep building everything larger and doing more and more maps between the 2 machines it would be best to move the symbol pngs and the catalogue files into the Symbols folder. Otherwise what you do to a map on either machine won't work correctly on the other machine.

Hi Paolo, and welcome to the forum :)

Start by installing CC3+, then install the most recent CC3+ Update, and then all the add-ons in no particular order. Finally, run the most recent update installer again at the end.

Most but not all of the installers are set up to open CC3+ at the end of the installation process. If that is the case please let it do so. However, always close CC3+ down afterwards and never try to install anything with the app open.

If you run into difficulties just shout and we will help.