ACA2011-Text editor appears on top of text? Help!!

[cadlivin]

I don't remember this being a problem in my last install of Autocad Architecture 2011. When I click on text to edit, the box appears right over the text making it impossible to edit text without moving the box out of the way. Is there a way to set the distance or another location as the default?

[lynnnester]

MTEXTFIXED perhaps?

http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/EN...0acaf-4f38.htm

[cadlivin]

MTEXTFIXED did not allow me to change the location of the "TEXT FORMATTING" box that pops up. This box has all of the options to change the text. When I click on text that I want to change, this text box pops up on top of the text I want to change. Very annoying. I have to move the box somewhere else so that I can even see the text I want to edit. Has anyone seen this before?

[ccowgill]

MTEXTFIXED did not allow me to change the location of the "TEXT FORMATTING" box that pops up. This box has all of the options to change the text. When I click on text that I want to change, this text box pops up on top of the text I want to change. Very annoying. I have to move the box somewhere else so that I can even see the text I want to edit. Has anyone seen this before?

It almost sounds like MTEXTED is set to OldEditor and MTEXTFIXED is set to 1 or 2. If MTEXTED is set to Internal, and MTEXTFIXED is set to 0, it will open the text in place, therefore the toolbar has no choice but to appear elsewhere in the drawing (directly above the window that is opened for text to be edited.)

[therussellbell]

I know this is an old thread but in an effort to alieviate the frustration of the few people that stumble upon this thread for which my solution may hold the answer, I shall post this. I was having this very same issue and it was driving me nuts as well. No command in autocad would fix it and no registry editing helped. When I read geekster's reply about drivers possibly being the reason a light bulb went on in my head. I have an AMD graphics card and they have a plug-in called desktop manager (enabled and disabled under the Hydravision tab in Catalyst Control Center). It controls window placement, etc. I disabled this add-on and bingo, my cad windows were back where they belong!



PS: Nice name CADMunkee! Kudos to you just for that.