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AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:36:58 GMT

Autocad2012 gives message as "Please wait, formatting text" and stops. The drawings will never open after killing the task also and we need to restart the system.

Suggest any solutions for this

Vijay

@Anonymous

john.vellek has edited your subject line for clarity: please wait; formatting text

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

jayhar — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:37:21 GMT

Hi,

Take a look at the text styles used in the drawing, are there any unusual ones there which are being substituted?

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

Vinayv4v — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:37:35 GMT

Hi,

Please upload the drawing so we can have a look.

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:37:57 GMT

To check that autocad itself will not open

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

jayhar — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:38:14 GMT

please upload your cad file

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

john.vellek — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:38:29 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Are you seeing this error message with specific drawings or all drawings? What is your OS ?

Have you tried using Recover on the file(s) before you open them?

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

jayhar — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 04:33:52 GMT

Hi,

Take a look at the text styles used in the drawing, are there any unusual ones there which are being substituted?

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

jayhar — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 04:38:03 GMT

Hi,

"There are a few ways to try to fix this. Open the text in the editor. Select all of the text (press Ctrl+A), right-click, click Remove Formatting, then pick one of the three options given: Remove Character Formatting, Remove Paragraph Formatting, or Remove All Formatting. Remove All may be what you need.

"This should clear everything out. If that doesn't work, select all of the text (while in the editor) and copy (Ctrl+C). In Windows, open Notebook (a simple text editor that strips all formatting from text) and paste (Ctrl+V) the text as a new text object."

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:25:38 GMT

I have also encountered this problem for the first time in 15 years of using ACAD.

The drawing will not open, it just spins and the comment "Please wait, formatting text" shows up in the bottom right of the program screen, with the loading bar.

It continually does this. I see there are suggestions about checking text, is there any strange text etc.

the file DID open and worked for sometime, i do not know how this became a problem.

Tried running recover on it, seems to go through most checks, then when it tries to open the file, the problem occurs again.

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:32:26 GMT

i have attached a screen shot

eventually the plan shows up (But i cannot do anything) and the formatting text loading down the bottom right is visible in this screen shot.

It will just do it occasionally, but i cannot do anything else....

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

BeKirra — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 01:00:20 GMT

Try this command _recover

Then save it to an older format (e.g. 2013 - assuming you have the most recent AuyoCAD version).

Reopen the drawing.

HTH

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

cadffm — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 06:19:37 GMT

Without the file I will not try to help but if you share the data I will look at it and I'm pretty sure I (we) can help.

Re: AutoCAD 2012 message "please wait; formatting text"

pendean — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:16:45 GMT

Are you still using 2012?
Is this plain AutoCAD, or a vertical version like MECH o C3D or...?

Did you fix the file yet as noted by others?