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Commonly used symbols are listed on the submenu, along with their control
code or Unicode string. Click Other to display the Character Map dialog box,
which contains the entire character set for each font available on your system.
Select a character and click Select to place it in the Characters to Copy box.
When you have selected all the characters that you want to use, click Copy
to close the dialog box. In the editor, right-click and click Paste.
Symbols are not supported in vertical text.
Oblique Angle Determines the forward or backward slant of the text. The
angle represents the offset from 90 degrees. Entering a value between -85 and
85 makes the text oblique. A positive obliquing angle slants text to the right.
A negative obliquing angle slants text to the left.
Tracking Decreases or increases the space between the selected characters.
The 1.0 setting is normal spacing. Set to more than 1.0 to increase spacing,
and set to less than 1.0 to decrease spacing.
Width Factor Widens or narrows the selected characters. The 1.0 setting
represents the normal width of the letter in this font. You can increase the
width (for example, use a width factor of 2 to double the width) or decrease
the width (for example, use a width factor of 0.5 for half the width).
Additional Text Options
Insert Field Displays the Field dialog box.
Symbol Displays a list of available symbols. You can also select a Non-breaking
space and open the Character Map for additional symbols.
Import Text Displays the Select File dialog box (a
standard file selection dialog
box
). Select any file that is in ASCII or RTF format. Imported text retains its
original character formatting and style properties, but you can edit and format
the imported text in the editor. After you select a text file to import, you can
replace either selected text or all text, or append the inserted text to text
selected within the text boundary. The file size for imported text is limited to
32 KB.
The editor automatically sets the text color to BYLAYER. When black characters
are inserted and the background color is black, the editor automatically changes
to white or the current color.
NOTE A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet imported into a drawing is truncated at 72
rows unless the spreadsheet was created in Microsoft Office 2002 with Service
Pack 2 installed. The same limitation applies when the drawing that contains the
OLE object is opened on a system with an earlier version of Microsoft Office
installed; the spreadsheet is truncated.
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