You can change the location
and content of multiline text objects with the Properties palette,
the In-Place Text Editor, and grips.
After
you create multiline text, you can use the Properties palette to
change
- Text style assignment
- Justification
- Width
- Rotation
- Line spacing
In addition, you can use either the MTEXT ribbon
contextual tab (if the ribbon is active) or the In-Place Text Editor
(if the ribbon is not active) to modify individual formatting, such
as boldface and underlining, and to change the width of the multiline
text object.
Change Text Location
You
can use grips to move multiline text or to resize the line width.
A multiline text object has grips at the four corners of the text
boundary and, in some cases, at the justification point.
If you use the Properties
palette to move multiline text, you can edit content and change
properties at the same time.
Commands such as DIMLINEAR or LEADER create multiline
text automatically without requiring that a bounding box be specified;
these objects have only a single grip at the justification point.
When you need to align
or move multiline text objects, you can use the Node and Insertion
object snaps for precision. If the OSNAPNODELEGACY system variable
is set to 0, the Node object snap ignores multiline text.
To change multiline text
- Select a multiline text object.
- Right-click the selected object. Click
Properties.
- In the Properties palette, enter any
new text and change formatting and other settings as needed.
To change the width of
a multiline text object
- Double-click the multiline text object.
- In the In-Place Text Editor, use one
of the following methods:
- Move the cursor over the right end of
the ruler until the cursor changes to a double arrow. As you drag
to the right to stretch the ruler, a tooltip displays the width.
Release to set a new width.
- Right-click the bottom of the ruler.
Click Set Mtext Width. In the dialog box, enter the width in drawing
units.
- To save your changes and exit the editor,
use one of the following methods:
- On the MTEXT ribbon
contextual tab, in the Close panel, click
Close Text Editor.
- Click in the drawing outside the editor.
- Press CTRL+ENTER.
CommandsDDEDIT
Edits single-line text,
dimension text, attribute definitions, and feature control frames.
FIND
Finds the text that
you specify, and can optionally replace it with other text.
MTEDITPROPERTIES
Controls properties
of existing objects.
STYLE
Creates, modifies, or
specifies text styles.
System VariablesCENTERMT
Controls how grips stretch
multiline text that is centered horizontally.
MIRRTEXT
Controls how MIRROR
reflects text.
MTEXTED
Sets the application
for editing multiline text objects.
OSNAPNODELEGACY
Controls whether the
Node object snap can be used to snap to multiline text objects.
TEXTFILL
Controls the filling
of TrueType fonts while plotting.
TEXTQLTY
Sets the resolution
tessellation fineness of text outlines.
