Text size spontaneously reduces by 482x

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I dropped a title block (for reasons) and am attempting to edit the tags/text. Most of the time the text editor fails to appear when double-clicking (requiring selection from the context menu) (it's not going off the screen somewhere, I've checked). Sometimes I get a "window" with just the title bar that says "Text Editor" but no actual editor, just a white space. Furthermore, making any changes (or even just opening and closing the text editor*) drastically reduces the size by about 482x when I close out. 
 *This occurs about 90% of the time but sometimes it randomly retains its prior properties, leading me to think this is all some kind of glitch? I've also played with the annotation scale and that just ends up resizing everything (works properly and is set correctly as-is). 
 Also, if I manually change the text size in the text editor, it accepts it but when you re-open the text editor, it has reduced the text size by a factor of 482. 
 Some of the things I've tried: 
 Match Text Attributes = does nothing 
 Annotation Scale Lock = makes no difference 
 Preferences > Apply to All Text = makes no difference 
 Re-dropping the tags/text = makes no difference 
 Changing text/dimension styles = makes no difference 
 Reopening the drawing = does nothing 
 Am I missing something here? This is a drawing I inherited so perhaps it's an obscure setting somewhere but this is also a drawing with a lot of apparent bugs (snaps take minutes to appear, etc.). I came from AutoCAD and only have a year on this with no formal training. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Lorys · Answer

first off you need to tell use what version of microstation your using. its one of the rules ok... as it makes a big differnce how we can work out how to help you. next you need to explain in detail your work flow... 
 that said are you using sheet model like in autocad? 
 is your title block a cell, a model or a ref attachment and combination of those? 
 now since you havent posted a copy of your dgn pre dropped we cannot really investigate what is the cause of the problems your haveing, so i can only tell you what method I employed for title block data that has to change or be updated. ( even if I used projectwise or not) 
 when i used sheet models for title blocks the basic data, lines logos etc things that never changed was in a xref and the tag data that would change was a different xref that was a cell or a model that was then later merged into the active sheet model allowing me to edit the tag data that is unique to each drawing, and keeping standard fonts and level names etc as per client standards. 
 I didnt need to drop any tags as I just double click on an active tag and tag editor pops and I can edit tag text through there, now some users prefer items instead of tags as connect edition is better at reporting items. But for me as an aid most of the tags were prepopulated with some holding data so I could see them and direct edit them and it also enable to turn on any new ones needed like next line for rev B not used prior but needed now... 
 because the tag set editor lists all the tag data in the clicked on tag text and can now be edited or even turned off or on ie visible or invisible. 
 It also allowed for several different title blocks xrefs for different clients or multiple models each for different clients or type of title blocks and a copy would live ani the xref fold for the specific project.. making it very easy to modify those title blocks to suit the project like the overall project title. 
 this approach is also very condusive to use through projectwise for bulk editing or with vba and excel also bulk editing in both directions.. most of my small civil projects involved at least 300 drgs.. so updating title block revs etc needed to be in bulk no manually one at a time. 
 Tags in microstation are used like attributed blocks in acad.. if you dont really understand tags and how to use them in microstation, no shame there 
 ( even though Jon and other will say tags are now old hat and have limited use) I have republished in this forum the "Tags 101" ( originally written by Karen Fugal, I learned more form her article on this thna anything published by bentley .. and I even bough books on microstation and did many courses with bentley but nothing ever helped on tags like her tags 101, please search for it and download the pdf for further study.. 
 I no longer have access to microstation , as I retired from work end of november but I'm happy to help you as much as I can from memory and many others here are only here to help each other and voluntarily donate their time and knowledge for no gain. I love these forums and the users here are a great bunch of guys and gals only too willing to assist you...

Text size spontaneously reduces by 482x

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