diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ba821b0ba..2325c062d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: datawizard
 Title: Easy Data Wrangling and Statistical Transformations
-Version: 0.13.0.12
+Version: 0.13.0.13
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Indrajeet", "Patil", , "patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-1995-6531")),
diff --git a/R/standardize.models.R b/R/standardize.models.R
index 923c2a65d..be76c5900 100644
--- a/R/standardize.models.R
+++ b/R/standardize.models.R
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ standardize.default <- function(x,
   }
 
   # check model formula. Some notations don't work when standardizing data
-  insight::formula_ok(x, verbose = verbose)
+  if (!insight::formula_ok(x, verbose = verbose)) {
+    insight::format_alert(insight::color_text("Model cannot be standardized.", "red"))
+    return(x)
+  }
 
   data_std <- NULL # needed to avoid note
   .standardize_models(x,
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-standardize_models.R b/tests/testthat/test-standardize_models.R
index 706a4e6e7..96a0b12af 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-standardize_models.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-standardize_models.R
@@ -31,6 +31,28 @@ test_that("standardize | errors", {
 })
 
 
+test_that("standardize | problematic formulas", {
+  data(mtcars)
+  m <- lm(mpg ~ hp, data = mtcars)
+  expect_equal(
+    coef(standardise(m)),
+    c(`(Intercept)` = -3.14935717633686e-17, hp = -0.776168371826586),
+    tolerance = 1e-4
+  )
+
+  colnames(mtcars)[1] <- "1_mpg"
+  m <- lm(`1_mpg` ~ hp, data = mtcars)
+  expect_message(expect_warning(standardise(m), regex = "Looks like"))
+
+  data(mtcars)
+  m <- lm(mtcars$mpg ~ mtcars$hp)
+  expect_message(expect_warning(standardise(m), regex = "model formulas"))
+
+  m <- lm(mtcars[, 1] ~ hp, data = mtcars)
+  expect_message(expect_warning(standardise(m), regex = "indexed data"))
+})
+
+
 # Transformations ---------------------------------------------------------
 test_that("transformations", {
   skip_if_not_installed("effectsize")