Static Column Formating removed when text is blocked

[AMBrown29]

I am having an issue.  I am in charge of managing my office's cad standards and tool pallets.  One item we have on our pallets is our standard notes.  In order for our notes to be a pallet item, we need them to be made into a block.  Good so far?

I have a large set of notes that I have formatted into 3 columns.  When I block the text, the column formatting goes away and I am left with a long text block but only one column.  If I explode the block, the text formatting returns and I have the 3 columns, so not the end of the world, but I am a bit OCD and I would like it to work properly when in the block and when not in a block. 

Is this an autocad glitch or a setting?  I don't want 'work-arounds', because I have a half dozen of them, I am only interested in a solution, if there is one.

[David_W_Koch]

What version of AutoCAD Architecture are you using?  I am not able to reproduce that here - if I create a block out of an MText instance with three fixed columns, the formatting remains while the text is in the block.

Can you post a sample file that exhibits this behavior?

[AMBrown29]

I am Currently using Architecture 2017 but it has been an issue since 2011 at least.  I guess that would indicate it is likely a setting issue...

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

It's probably because you have both an annotative block and annotative text inside the annotative block.  Text inside an annotative block should not be annotative itself. It should be designed only for 1:1 (plot scale). Rebuild the block correctly and it should be fine.

[AMBrown29]

Actually, I had forgotten that I had made the block annotative.  I changed the font to be non-annotative and it did not fix the issue, but re-making the block as non-annotative did.  Thanks for the help!

[dbroad]

 It isn’t  enough to change the text style to annotative. That’s not actually necessary anyway. Instead, use bedit, select the text inside the block, view the properties palette, and mark annotative no. For your block, it should be annotative. That is the only way to synchronize the box and text.