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3 On the Properties palette, select one of the Justification options.
4 Click outside the Properties palette.
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PROPERTIES
Format Characters Within Multiline Text
As you create multiline text, you can override the text style and apply differ-
ent formatting to individual words and characters. The format changes affect
only the text you select; the current text style is not changed.
You can specify a different font and text height and apply boldface, italics,
underlining, and color.
The text height setting specifies the height of capitalized text. The change of
text height that is displayed in the Multiline Text Editor is proportional to
the change in height of the actual characters displayed in the drawing. For
more information about how height is calculated, see
MTEXT.
See Also
“Use an Alternate Text Editor” on page 504
To format characters in multiline text
1 On the Draw menu, click Text ➤ Multiline Text.
2 Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the mul-
tiline text object.
3 In the Multiline Text Editor, enter text.
4 Select the text you want to format:
■ To select one or more letters, click and drag the pointing device over
the characters.
■ To select a word, double-click the word.
■ To select a paragraph, triple-click the paragraph.
5 On the toolbar, make format changes as follows:
■ To change the font of the selected text, select a font from the list.
■ To change the height of the selected text, enter a new value in the
Height box.
■ To format text in a TrueType font with boldface or italics, or to create
underlined text for any font, click the corresponding button on the
toolbar. SHX fonts do not support boldface or italics.
■ To apply color to selected text, select a color from the Color list. Click
Other to display the Select Color dialog box.