Text increment tool not working

If I place a string of text that includes letters and numbers then the text increment tool no longer works in V8i select 1

In V8i I could use this command but I had to drop the element from a text node to a text element. In this version that doesn't work

Please fix this

Text with letters are placed as a text node no matter how many lines you have

single line text with only numbers are place as a Text Element