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Im having a problem with a drawing that I did a few weeks ago.  The drawing is a floorplan with multiple blocks and each block has around 3 attributes. When I originally made the drawing everything looked perfectly fine, but when I now open it up to make some changes, all my attributes display as just a square instead of text.  This is only a problem with this particular drawing and Im wondering if the file got corrupted somehow.  The question I have is whether you have seen anything like this before and if so is there an easy way to fix it short of redoing the entire drawing.  Thanks,
Adam

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QTEXT is a command that turns on and off the display of text and attributes.  When QTEXT is ON (QTEXTMODE set to 1), all the text and attributes turn into rectangles and squares.  Turn QTEXT off (QTEXTMODE set to 0), and REGEN, and all the text and attributes will display again.  It was originally designed for slow systems to speed up regeneration of the drawing.  

Let me know how it goes.

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