Scott,
Just found out what I was doing wrong. After you change the text, you have
to click the "Add Text Parameter" button (the one to the right of the
property box).
Hope this helps.
Kirk
--
IV R9, SP1
Dell PWS360, 2.6ghz, P4
2 Gb ram
nVidia FX1000
6.14.10.6808Driver
1260x1024x32 bit
"Kirk A." wrote in message
news:41938aa5$1_3@newsprd01...
> > I could only delete the text altogether and re-insert new text.
>
> I can't even do that. I can't inset any fields.
>
>
> --
> IV R9, SP1
> Dell PWS360, 2.6ghz, P4
> 2 Gb ram
> nVidia FX1000
> 6.14.10.6808Driver
> 1260x1024x32 bit
>
>
> "csmac2004" wrote in
> message news:41929f77$1_2@newsprd01...
> > Was this title block created in an earlier IV version, and now you're
> trying
> > to edit it in IV9? I had the exact same problems. Our title block had
been
> > created in an earlier version (no idea which version), and when I tried
> > editing (such as you mentioned, changing properties, text size, format,
> etc)
> > but nothing happened.
> >
> > I could only delete the text altogether and re-insert new text. I
finally
> > opened our IDW templates, edited the TB, deleted all the text, and
> > reinserted all of it back in (did this with IV9 of coures). Since doing
> > that, I can edit them no problem. Seems like a bug, but no one else had
> > complained about this before so I didn't gripe about it thinking I'd
just
> > done something wrong or missed the boat on something. I haven't heard of
> any
> > better fixes for this.
> > --
> > Scott M
> >
> > Inventor 9, SP1
> > Windows XP Pro
> > Maxtor 60GB HD
> > 3D Labs Wildcat VP560 64MB
> > Intel Pentium4 2.4GHz
> > 1GB RAM
> >
> >
> > "Kirk A." wrote in message
> > news:419286f2_3@newsprd01...
> > > I just rebooted and changed to a single user project, then tried to
edit
> > the
> > > title block of the (out of the box) standard.idw template. I tried to
> > edit
> > > the Model,Company field in the TB. No matter what I do, I can't
change
> > > this. I can delete the field and change the text size, but I can't
> > replace
> > > it with any other field.
> > >
> > > --
> > > IV R9, SP1
> > > Dell PWS360, 2.6ghz, P4
> > > 2 Gb ram
> > > nVidia FX1000
> > > 6.14.10.6808Driver
> > > 1260x1024x32 bit
> >
> >
>
>