Text Formatting.

[Anonymous]

Why is the text formatting capibility so poor? Some have argued that to design a building, text formatting is not nessecary, but beyond being "poor" it's flukey and does not even fucntion as one would expect. See this thread: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture/revit-text-editor/td-p/2547222

[sureshchotrani]

Which version of Revit are you using?

[treyk · Accepted solution]

Hi Beth--

We feel you pain with respect to Revit text, which has not had a lot of improvement since the early years of the product.  My team is hoping to provide Revit with a new text editor with new formatting tools in upcoming releases.  Stay tuned!

Thanks for your feedback,

Trey

[BIMologist_]

As Trey mentioned about upcoming information. If you want to have a voice in the process of what gets on the production agenda, provide feedback to a feature that may be upcoming) I would highly recommend joining the Feedback Community at  https://beta.autodesk.com

[sureshchotrani]

Will also request you to put the same in wishlist

[Anonymous]

Beth is right. The text editing capability is beyond poor. I hope that the reply about upcoming releases means "next release". This has been on the wishlist for years with still nothing being improved.

[PDSF]

I couldn't agree more and I have made the suggestion to Autodesk's wishlist many times.  This is my #1 (and #2 and #3) complaint about the product.  I imagine that it might be a difficult programming issue or it would have happened long ago, as I can't believe that Autodesk just doesn't care about their users (\sarcasm).  Still, please, make it a top priority for the next release.  I rarely find essential the many incremental "upgrades" in Revit releases, while I use the text editor practically every day.  Just provide a duplicate of the text editor contained in Autocad, which is very good and would be a monumental upgrade.  Thanks.

[MichaelWarwick7522]

Better yet, make it a priority for the next UPDATE.

[kruegermattr]

Trey,

Text editing issues are clearly the biggest issue of the day.  (day/year/forever)  Everyone (including the Autodesk employees) have noted that this has been an issue at the top of the wish list for a very long time.  Can you shed any light as to why it has taken so long?  It clearly must be more difficult than we all assume it should be seeing that it's still not available and the best answer we've gotten is it will be available in "upcoming releases".  (which as one person mentioned, that technically could mean Revit 2020)

Thanks-