Attribute Extraction

I have been trying to figure out the attext command, but I am not finding any documentation on it at all. I have several blocks with attribute data in the drawing. I am pointing it to a template file which I am assuming is expected to be formatted like AutoCad. I then select the blocks. While selecting the blocks it says that it found 8 entities, but when I hit enter and the attext command window comes back it says no entities selected. I have tried this on 2 computers with the same result. What am I missing?