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Change Text Location
You can use many of the common modifying commands and grips to move
multiline text objects. A multiline text object has grips at the four corners of
the text boundary and, in some cases, at the justification point.
Commands such as DIMLINEAR or LEADER create multiline text automatically
without requiring that a bounding box be specified; these objects have only
a single grip at the justification point.
When you need to align or move multiline text objects, you can use the Node
and Insertion object snaps for precision. If the OSNAPNODELEGACY system
variable is set to 0, the Node object snap ignores multiline text.
See also:
Work with Text Styles on page 1469
Control the Display of Polylines, Hatches, Gradient Fills, Lineweights, and
Text
on page 582
To change multiline text
1 Select a multiline text object.
2 Right-click the selected object. Click Properties.
3 In the Properties palette, enter any new text and change formatting and
other settings as needed.
To change the width of a multiline text object
1 Double-click the multiline text object.
2 In the In-Place Text Editor, use one of the following methods:
Move the cursor over the right end of the ruler until the cursor changes
to a double arrow. As you drag to the right to stretch the ruler, a tooltip
displays the width. Release to set a new width.
Right-click the bottom of the ruler. Click Set Mtext Width. In the
dialog box, enter the width in drawing units.
3 To save your changes and exit the editor, use one of the following
methods:
On the MTEXT ribbon contextual tab, in the Close panel, click Close
Text Editor.
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