How to find Layer Name in Layer Panel

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Hi Good Evening...

I am using CC2018. Attached here one example.

I am creating number of visiting cards for Hotels & Companies. So I choose this way, each person in one layer now almost 80 visiting cards I made in one Ai File. I work in printing press. So regularly Clients ask me to reprint some of these v-cards. Now I searching manually one by one.

So how can I search or locate that particular name from this Layer Panel.

Do you have any other good suggestion to save large number of v-card in one place. Please let me know.

Thanks

Muhammed Shamseed

[Anna Lander · Accepted solution]

You have 1 layer for 1 client, right? So you have each name typed once.

Then you can do the following:

1. Show all layersin the Layers panel.

2. Edit > Find & Replace > Enter the name and click Find button. You will have the neeede name selected. The same time you will see the name and its layer shown in the layer panel/

3.Click on the Eye icon holding Alt (Option) button. All other layers become hidden.

Now you can print this layer

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thank you so much....

[chrisv29306934]

This process does not work in 2022.

[Monika Gause]

Please describe your file.

In this specifioc case, the name of the layer was also text on the artboard

[chrisv29306934]

I'm looking for the way to be able to search and find layer names for any given situation. Many of my Ai files have dozens of layers, often nested, but generally I keep them organized and named. I've been trying to find if there is some means to search that would be able to bring me to a layer. It sounds like this use case only worked because the layer names were also text present elsewhere in the file.