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Change Single-Line Text
You can change single-line text with DDEDIT and PROPERTIES. Use DDEDIT
when you need to change only the content of the text, not the formatting or
properties of the text object. Use
PROPERTIES when you want to change con-
tent, text style, location, orientation, size, justification, and other properties.
Text objects also have grips for moving, scaling, and rotating. A text object
has grips at the lower-left corner of the baseline and at the alignment point.
The effect of a command depends on which grip you choose.
To edit single-line text
1 From the Modify menu, choose Object.
2 Choose Text. Then choose Edit.
3 Select the single-line text object you want to edit.
4 In the Edit Text dialog box, enter the new text. Then choose OK.
5 Select another text object to edit, or press
ENTER to end the command.
Command line
DDEDIT
To modify properties of single-line text objects
1 Select a single-line text object.
2 Right-click the selected object and click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3 In the Properties palette, enter any new text and change formatting and
other properties as needed.
Standard toolbar
Command line
PROPERTIES
grips for right-justified line text
grips for middle-justified line text
alignment point
alignment point