Most hated Rv glitch

[yes_and_no]

Couple years ago I accidentally found a way to solve this Rv glitch, perhaps the most hated glitch known since 2008: the right text indent glitch. You know what I meant, see photo, when trying to edit a text, the cursor/indent always prompt to the right while 99% of the world population writes from last to right, makes it impossible to edit the text. This is the most hated glitch in Rv history, IMHO.

Anyone knows how to kill it, please help, I can't remember the trick I used.

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[RobDraw]

I don't see anything wrong, nor have I ever heard of, or experienced, this so called "most hated glitch". If an anomaly in text formatting is your pre-eminent complaint, I'd say your doing quite well or have yet to really dig into Revit. The complaint department is down the hall and to the left. Most of us could name a few others that, IMHO, far outweigh any problems with text.

[yes_and_no]

Rob, perhaps you have wonderful PC/system and have not experienced this glitch. I had worked in a 50+ person firm with two offices on both coasts, 2 bim managers and we ran into this problem with no answer. What we did is retype the text (what I' ve shown). Some has to reinstall Rv. I am sure you have your own "most hated glitch", but this is mine - I m the old fashion guy, prefer 1 minute text over 2 hrs scratching-head- modeling (nothing wrong with it).

I m here asking for help, not to receive insult, although none has taken, I m still learning from the best here.

[RobDraw]

How is posting the retyped "fixed" text supposed to illustrate your "glitch"?

If it can be replicated, maybe there is a solution. After all, that is what this forum is about.

[RDAOU]

@yes_and_no 

 I haven't seen that glitch before either although I have been using Revit since its 2009 release. It could be template related or project related or a broken deployment, it could be a corrupt text type, it could be anything...I am not sure how anyone on this forum would be able to help you with that when all the variables are only known to you.

Revit did lack a lot on the Text handling and formatting but it is being improved over the years. Personally I never complain about such shortcomings in any software and try to work my way around them. In most cases if the workaround to get something to work is a clean uninstall, users on this forum can't really help you...and best would be if you or your account manager address the query to Autodesk support. 

[syman2000]

Actually it is a good thing because it prevent people from using dumb text and want to attach data into the object you are modeling. In most cases I have these text placed inside the family so user simply use multi-category tag and tag those objects. I find this to work best and less line skipping from one version to next. Last time we upgrade Revit 2016 to 2017, text shift. After 2017 to 2018, text shifts again. Who knows if Autodesk is going to give us more improved version and we are force to revisit this text debacle again. To keep it safe, you may want to consider alternative like tagging or create annotative text symbols family.

[RobDraw]

Yeah, that's it. Don't use this, even though it's totally the right thing to do, because a few people claim to have a problem with it.

SMH...

[RobDraw]

I'm wondering if the so called glitched text was imported. I've gotten unexpected results when importing AutoCAD details.

[RDAOU]

One can't really tell much from the level of info and image in the original post.

Apparently it has a workaround since the op states "I can't remember the trick I used"...which also implies that it has been something recurrent (at his end) => a user workflow/habit related. Therefore, one cannot really complain that it is a software/code glitch

[yes_and_no]

I was hopping someone having the same problem or experienced it will recognize it once I mentioned. In previous office we laughed and called it OE, operational error, but obviously it was not, since it happened to more than 5 peoples that I remember. It s gone if we reinstall Rv, meaning it s not hardware related. It hard to take a photo to show you guys, because once you click in the text where you want to edit, it prompts right to the right indent, in split second, can't take a picture of that, sorry... Now I m in different office, it happens again and i can't wait to reinstall Rv. And this is a brand new project started from clean slate, no template.

[RDAOU]

@yes_and_no 

Try out the following...should help narrow down the cause

1. Open 2x clean .rvt file ... (same Revit session as the model with offending text)
2. Copy the offending text to clipboard
   • paste it in the first clean file (Do not overwrite the text style/type when or if it prompts you)... Does the problem persist?
   • paste it in the Second clean file (BUT this time overwrite the text style/type when or if it prompts you)... Does the problem persist?

[RobDraw]

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@yes_and_no wrote:

In previous office we laughed and called it OE, operational error, but obviously it was not, since it happened to more than 5 peoples

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What if all 5 "peoples" did the same thing to create it?

What is the source of the text? Is it imported as I suggested already?

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@yes_and_no wrote:

it prompts right to the right indent,

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What does this mean?