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■ Columns menu on page 1245
■ Options menu
When a table cell is selected for editing, the In-Place Text Editor displays
column letters and row numbers.
NOTE Not all options available when creating single-line text.
List of Options
The following options are displayed.
Text Editor Shortcut Menu
Select All Selects all the text in the text editor.
Cut Copies the selected text and removes it from the text editor to the
clipboard.
Copy Copies the selected text from the text editor to the clipboard.
Paste Pastes the text in the clipboard to the cursor position in the text editor.
Paste Special Pastes the text in the clipboard to the cursor position in the
text editor while removing character, paragraph, or any formatting from the
text in the clipboard. (Not available for single-line text.)
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 dialog box 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. (Not available for single-line text.)
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
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