Graphics Programs Reference
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Understanding Text Formatting with the Text Editor Visor
You've just experimented with a few of the text formatting features of the Text Editor visor. A
variety of additional formatting tools are available. Table 9.1 describes their uses. They're fairly
straightforward, and if you've used other word processing programs, you should find them easy
to use. Most are common to the majority of word processors, although a few—such as Symbol,
Background Mask, and Oblique Angle—are unique to AutoCAD. Look at Table 9.1 and see if
there are any tools you think you'll find useful.
TABLE 9.1:
Text-formatting tools
TOOL
USE
Text Style
Select a text style.
Text Height
Set the paper text height of text currently being entered or edited.
Bold/Italic/
Underline/Overline
Select text, and then select one of these options to add bold, italic, underline, or
overline to the text.
Color
Select text, and then choose a color from this pop-up menu.
Font
Select a font different from the font for the current text style.
Background Mask
Available through the right-click menu, this tool gives you control over the back-
ground mask feature, which places a background behind text to make it more read-
able when placed over hatch patterns.
Change Case
Available through the right-click menu, changes the case of text.
Paragraph
Available through the right-click menu, displays the Paragraph dialog box. Lets you
set up paragraph formatting, including tabs, indents, and line and paragraph spac-
ing. You can also set line spacing in the Properties Inspector palette for an Mtext
object. (See “Setting Indents and Tabs” later in this chapter.)
Bullets And Lists
Available through the right-click menu; select a text list, click this tool, and then select
Lettered, Numbered, or Bulleted to add letters, numbers, or bullets to the list.
Default/Left/
Center/Right /
Justify/Distribute
Click the appropriate tool to align the text to the left, center, or right side of the
text boundary. Justify adds space between words to force left and right alignment.
Distribute adds space between letters to force left and right alignment.
Columns
Available through the right-click menu, indicates the number of columns and how
the columns are set up.
Symbol
Place the cursor at a location for the symbol, and then click the Symbol tool to find
and add a symbol. (See Figure 9.8, later in this chapter, for the available symbols.)
Insert Field
Click to open the Insert Field dialog box where you can add a text field. See “Adding
Formulas to Cells,” in Chapter 10, for more about fields.
Character Set
Available through the right-click menu, Character Set offers foreign-language char-
acters such as Cyrillic or Greek, for example.
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