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Yeah, I changed the Text Style, that's where I've taken care of it before...it just doesn't work. Something must be wrong, I tried the holding "x" method, it of course works. I'm much more willing to do this to every room than to fight with this any longer. Thanks so much for the replies fellas.

I feel like I've been in every dbx to do this and I know it's basic, I'm wondering now if I might have a bug or something. Attaching a screen shot of the last thing I tried. I tried changing the size here and it always reverts back to what's in the box, which doesn't look right to me anyway. I'm just trying to change the size of the room labels.

Thanks again for the replies here. The amount of information on Chief you can find online is staggering and sometimes a little difficult to sift through. It came down to me just being exactly what I didn't want to be. An idiot. I thought I had a handle on roofs before. I clearly didn't. I was making it much harder than it needed to be and I believe relying to heavily on the auto roof function. In my glorious rise to be a complete master at roof design in the past week , I've ran into another problem. Being the front and rear of the house have those gables, I'm finding it hard to force the porch railing beams/posts to the soffit area. I can manually drag the entire front railing upwards and snap to God knows what in 3D view, but I know that isn't right. I've yet to find anything about being able to force separate posts at different lengths along a porch. Any ideas?

Thanks for the input everyone. Solver, I've seen that article and just moved past it several times because I didn't see exactly what I was looking for. I'll take another look at it. Glenw, I'll try that immediately. I appreciate the feedback, I truly do! Even you Dennis, thanks for taking the time to reply.

So, a little background so I don't look like a complete idiot. I work for a local government agency that enforces local building codes. One of our inspectors draws house plans in his spare time and has "taken me under his wing" to get me into it. He bought Chief and found out quickly that he's much more of an Autocad type of guy(not willing to learn anything new) so my task right now is to figure this software out. I've done well so far, I've designed a few sets of plans and I'm becoming more and more knowledgeable on many aspects of it, except for my current "assignment". This is either much more difficult than the houses I've done so far or it's not, and I'm truly an idiot. No matter what I do, I can't get my roofs to look like this. I can get the gullwing style(I think that's what it's called) to a certain point but when I add that gable on the front, and on the back.....it's just giving me headaches. Anything on my past attempts at other roofs or other problems on other plans could always be worked through by trial and error and with the help Google. And of course, this forum, which I've been lurking, vigorously . I'm not asking anyone to give me a step by step, nobody has time for that. But surely there's something online that could at least point me in the right direction. I've searched every keyword that I could think of and can't find a single thing that looks even similar. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks so much for reading to this point, and for any help you can give. EDIT - I'm using Chief Architect X6