This was touched on before, but I don't see some options I might expect so wondering if I am missing something. If I take a set of textures and save them to their own file then import them into a file w/ a figure is their a way to get them applied w/o having to match them to their surface again individually? Also, why can't we select all w/ the shaders? Can't group them either. It appears you have to hold shift and select each one again very time consuming.Am I missing something? I have looked in manual...didn't see anything new about these. Thanks.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.