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■ Control the Display of Polylines, Hatches, Gradient Fills, Lineweights, and
Text
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To change multiline text
1 Select a multiline text object.
2 Right-click the selected object. Click Properties.
3 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
1 Double-click the multiline text object.
2 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.
3 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.
Quick Reference
Commands
DDEDIT
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.
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