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Procedure
■ To create a text layer (page 1110)
■ To add text to a text layer (page 1114)
■
To style a text layer (page 1112)
GIS Skill
■ Add a text layer and edit text.
Tutorial
■ Tutorial: Annotating Your Map
Related topics
■ Annotating with AutoCAD Text Ob-
jects (page 1119)
■ Adding Labels to Features (page 1091)
■
Annotating Drawing Objects (page 1100)
To add text to a text layer
1 In the
Display Manager (page 2060), right-click the text layer. Click Create
➤ Create New Annotation.
2 Click in the map to specify a location for the text feature.
3 In the
Edit Text Instance dialog box (page 1627), enter the desired text.
4 To change the appearance of the text, select the characters to change and
specify a different font, style, or size.
Style overrides to apply to this particular text instance only. If you do
not specify overrides, the
style you assigned to the layer (page 1112) is
applied.
NOTE You cannot undo style overrides, but you can reset the attributes to
match the base style.
5 Click OK.
6 Deselect the text feature to see the styling changes.
7 When you have finished adding text features, click Check-in Features.
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