Hey,
I place 20 pieces of text. or 100. or 500. Later I place another, except this time I want a background (for example, but it could be *any* of the element's definition parameters I want to change), so I edit it (double click the text), click the magnifying glass, make sure Apply to all text is unchecked, set a background in the text style editor, save it, and get asked to save again on exit from the editor. Not sure which save causes it, but when I do it messes with all my carefully placed previous text elements. I do not get the save dialog that advises that it is going to change all the text, am I sure? Some get teeny because their annotation gets set to False. Some get huge because if annotation was off, it gets turned on. The heights on the "normal" elements that are left change, like from .08 to .10 depending on what other text elements of that style are in the drawing, some of which the heights may have been manually changed. I created some italic text by highlighting the text in the editor then clicking the italics button, and even though not one single style is set to create italicized text, text elements turn to italics. with some the justification changes, again seemingly related to other elements of the same style that have been manually changed. after I fix all their justifications and heights right I have to go shove them around to get them back into place.
in this dgn I am also experiencing the phenomenon of having the gap between the note part of the leader in a Place Note text note, and the text get WAY too big. there is no way to fix that as far as I know, so you have to replace the note. this is probably related to the text changing all over the place if I had to guess.
The Question: Can I create a piece of text and have it stay the way I want it to look and then have it never change again, or "lock" it? I want to place a piece of text ONCE and never have to touch it again.
thanks
V8i SS3