Is there an easy way to globally turn off display of the footprint in the schematic. I know I can click on a component and hit E to edit and uncheck the ‘show’ for the footprint, which works. But doing it for every component is going to be tedious 
Cheers.
Phill.
But doing it for every component is going to be tedious
This is by design. The goal is to teach you patience for your life.
Sadly there was a backdoor introduced so you can circumvent this long tedious learning process: Edit–>Edit Text and graphics properties
To affect the footprint field select “other symbol field” in the scope section.
Excelent that was exactly what I needed, thanks.
Cheers.
Phill.