Leader - Mtext issues

[jabtay]

At one time in my life I was a happy camper. I was able to just fly through AutoCAD without too many speed bumps. But as is life, I became too familiar with my way of working. Now something horrible has happened and I feel as useless as a cat driving an 10 wheeler. When I use qleader or "le" as I like to type it in 2007, the Mtext edit box does not come up anymore. I went into Leader Settings and set the "Second Segment Angle Constraint" to horizontal on the "Leader Line & Arrow" tab. That is all I have touched, and cannot find anywhere to get my text box back. on the Annotation tab Mtext is chosen as Annotation Type. I am at a loss here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[yedan]

have you by any chance got a reuse option ticked in your annotation tab under reuse annotations?

[jabtay]

I have tried those options, it just copies the last used annotation. Which it is better than me just right clicking out of the command like I usually do

[yedan]

hmmm dont know what to say then for me i select leader, click start point, click next point, hit right click three times and bang there is my mtext editor box and im ready to type,

[jabtay]

Thats what I used to do too. Now when I do that, I click right out of the command. I need to figure this out.

[jabtay]

Bump before i pull whats left of my hair out

[jabtay]

Still not working, any ideas???

[Cad64]

Here's the procedure:

QLEADER
Specify first leader point, or [Settings] <Settings>: Place 1st point
Specify next point: Place 2nd point
Specify next point: Place 3rd point
Specify text width <0">: Hit Enter
Enter first line of annotation text <Mtext>: Hit Enter
You should now have your Mtext Editor

[Strix]

there's a SETVAR command for leaders - which determines whether they have tails etc

sorry I can't remember what it's called, and can't look on this machine - but somebody else may be able to help out if I've jogged any memories

[brassworks]

Check out your AutoCAD Preferences/Options dialogue box. Type "PR" or "OP". Under the "User Preferences" tab, look at the Shortcut menus options. Maybe your machine has defaulted to the right-click/repeat command option. I don't know if this will help, but it might be the option that is creating the problem. These things can be just plain confounded!