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The current text style sets the font, size, obliquing angle, orientation, and
other text characteristics. If you want to create text using a different text style,
you can make another text style current. The table shows the settings for the
STANDARD text style.
The settings for the current text style are displayed at the Command prompts.
You can use or modify the current text style or create and load a new text
style. Once you've created a text style, you can modify its characteristics,
change its name, or delete it when you no longer need it.
Create and Modify Text Styles
Except for the default STANDARD text style, you must create any text style
that you want to use.
Text style names can be up to 255 characters long. They can contain letters,
numbers, and the special characters dollar sign ($), underscore (_), and hyphen
(-). If you don't enter a text style name, the text styles are automatically named
Stylen, where n is a number that starts at 1.
You can modify an existing text style in the Text Style dialog box by changing
the settings. You can also update existing text of that text style to reflect the
changes.
Certain style settings affect multiline and single-line text objects differently.
For example, changing the Upside Down and Backwards options has no effect
on multiline text objects. Changing Width Factor and Obliquing options has
no effect on single-line text.
If you rename an existing text style, any text using the old name assumes the
new text style name.
You can remove unreferenced text styles from your drawing with PURGE or
by deleting the text styles from the Text Styles dialog box. The STANDARD
text style cannot be removed.
Change Text Style
When you change the text style of a multiline text object, the updated settings
are applied to the entire object, and some formatting of individual characters
might not be retained. The following table describes the effects of text style
change on character formatting.
Retained?Formatting
NoBold
YesColor
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