# Select Text impossible

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928>\
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**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928 "2019-01-19T18:36:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Draxl\_Andreas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/draxl_andreas/32/145744_2.png) [@Draxl\_Andreas](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Draxl_Andreas)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/1 "2019-01-19T18:36:23Z")

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Hello Dynos,

Where the hell are the text elements. I don’t understand. it should work. Why they are not listed by ID?  
What did I wrong? in 2.0.2.

In Revit 2016 - Dynamo 0.9. it works!

KR

Andreas

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/2 "2019-01-19T19:22:28Z")

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Can you share a model that reproduces this?

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**Author:** ![Draxl\_Andreas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/draxl_andreas/32/145744_2.png) [@Draxl\_Andreas](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Draxl_Andreas)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/3 "2019-01-19T19:33:35Z")

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![2019-01-19_20h25_50](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/7/3/736040aefdcde10dbc0b8d188081512eb4f50add.png)  
…I think this is the problem… i do just a tutorial ![2019-01-19_20h32_43](https://cdck-file-uploads-us1.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/d/ed4e5d6d0f4ae7e287e82e1d8fb4b892a926f124.png)  
[test.dyn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/uploads/short-url/ln1BM7WJKZjGAIgNjdUd27XutH3.dyn) (3.6 KB)[TEST\_SELECT.rvt](https://forum.dynamobim.com/uploads/short-url/yfDsz64Ycp5IyhMZDdRy71ItDuR.rvt) (340 KB)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/andreas_dieckmann/32/365_2.png) [@Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Andreas_Dieckmann)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/4 "2019-01-20T11:25:18Z")

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Start Revit with English UI and report back if the problem persists. I‘m fairly certain this is a localization issue.

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**Author:** ![Draxl\_Andreas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/draxl_andreas/32/145744_2.png) [@Draxl\_Andreas](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Draxl_Andreas)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/5 "2019-01-21T08:33:05Z")

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![2019-01-21_09h30_51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/d/b/dbe9469aef953a95a65606e5a7969089b2ffc573.png)  
That was it, i did languagepack ENU and ENG. both work!

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/6 "2019-01-21T17:10:55Z")

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What language does it fail in?

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**Author:** ![Draxl\_Andreas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/draxl_andreas/32/145744_2.png) [@Draxl\_Andreas](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Draxl_Andreas)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/7 "2019-01-21T18:30:56Z")

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german DEU

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/andreas_dieckmann/32/365_2.png) [@Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Andreas_Dieckmann)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/select-text-impossible/30928/8 "2019-01-22T07:49:04Z")

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TextNotes are currently only usable in English language instances of Revit. There are a number of open issues that were reported for this over a year ago, like this one: [https://github.com/DynamoDS/DynamoRevit/issues/1626](https://github.com/DynamoDS/DynamoRevit/issues/1626)