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496 | Chapter 19 Notes and Labels
Set Horizontal or Vertical Text Orientation
AutoCAD orients lines of text to be vertical or horizontal. Text can have a
vertical orientation only if the associated font supports dual orientation. You
can create more than one line of vertical text. Each successive text line is
drawn to the right of the preceding line. The normal rotation angle for
vertical text is 270 degrees.
Note Vertical orientation is not supported for TrueType fonts.
To set vertical orientation in a text style
1 On the Format menu, click Text Style.
2 In the Text Style dialog box, select a text style from the Style Name list.
3 Under Effects, select Vertical.
4 To update existing text that uses this text style, click Apply.
5 Click Close.
Styles toolbar
Command line
STYLE
Change Text
You can change text content, formatting, and properties such as scale and
justification.
Overview of Changing Text
Text, whether created with TEXT, MTEXT, LEADER, or QLEADER, can be modi-
fied like any other object. You can move, rotate, erase, and copy it. You can
change text properties in the Properties palette.
You can also edit the contents of existing text and create a mirror image of it.
The
MIRRTEXT system variable controls whether text is also reversed when
you mirror objects in your drawing. The procedures for modifying text vary
slightly, depending on how the text was created.
vertical text