Text height doesn't update

What version of ACAD are you using?

Ah! Can't help you with that. Has many more text options than my old R14!

Changing the text height will not effect the height of prevously placed text. For example, If you use Standard textstyle having Times New Roman font and a height of 9", all text entered will be 9" high Times New Roman. If you modify the textstyle to 12", all text entered thereafter will be 12" high Times New Roman. All 9" text entered before the change will remain at 9". Modifiying the textstyle to Arial will change all the text to Arial but none of the existing heights will change. To change all the text to a new height you must select the text and enter the new size in the properties dialog box. For what it is worth, I seldom assign a height to a textstyle.

Karim

As far as I know AutoCAD has always worked that way regarding tex

styles. Changes to a style's font will affect previously place text, but not text height changes. This allows you to plac different height text using the same style. To change height o previously placed text, use "properties" or "scale"

For multiple inserts, you can use my BSCALE lisp routine which will scale all the text relative to their individual insertions, preserving their position to some extent, where a simple SCALE would probably move many of them to far. (it's on my site)

As an added tip, once you've created a text block to your liking, copy its attributes to existing text objects with the Copy Attributes tool (looks like a paintbrush).

What will they think of next...years after individual users already solved the problem? ; )

You can use FILTER to quickly create your selection set for whatever method you choose.

That's AutoDesk for ya. They make a big deal out of "new" features when, as you wrote, many have been solved already. I couldn't believe how they hyped the multiple copy command and a fillet command that wouldn't exit after one fillet.