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To stack characters manually within the In-Place Text Editor, select the text
to be formatted, including the special stacking character, and click the Stack
button on the Text Formatting toolbar.
Stack Numeric and Tolerance Characters Automatically
You can specify that numeric characters entered before and after a slash, pound
sign, or carat will stack automatically. For example, if you enter 1#3 followed
by a nonnumeric character or space, the AutoStack Properties dialog box is
displayed by default, and you can change the settings in the AutoStack dialog
box to specify your formatting preferences.
The automatic stacking feature applies only to numeric characters immediately
before and after the slash, pound sign, and carat. For tolerance stacking, the
+, -, and decimal character also stack automatically.
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To create stacked text
1 Click Home tab ➤ Annotation panel ➤ Multiline Text.
2 Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the
multiline text object.
3 In either the MTEXT ribbon contextual tab or In-Place Text Editor, set
text style and other multiline text properties as needed.
4 Enter the text you want to stack separated by one of the following
characters:
■ Slash (/) stacks text vertically, separated by a horizontal line.
■ Pound sign (#) stacks text diagonally, separated by a diagonal line.
■ Carat (^) creates a tolerance stack, which is not separated by a line.
If you enter numbers separated by stack characters and then enter a
nonnumeric character or press SPACEBAR, the AutoStack Properties dialog
box is displayed.
5 In the AutoStack Properties dialog box, you can choose to automatically
stack numbers (not nonnumeric text) and to remove leading blanks. You
can also specify whether the slash character creates a diagonal fraction
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