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2. Use the same technique as you did earlier to highlight only the
“Uniform Building Code” text. Then click the Bold and Underline but-
tons on the Formatting panel.
This underlines the selected text and displays the bold feature.
3. Click in the drawing area.
AutoCAD redraws the text with the changes (see Figure 8.62).
FiGuRE 8.62 The Mtext with individual words modified
You just created an Mtext entity and organized your GENERAL NOTES into
columns. Organizing large blocks of text is commonly found in many plan sets.
While you could create multiple Mtext entities to organize your text into col-
umns, the column feature provides a much more comprehensive approach. By
keeping everything contained inside a single Mtext entity, you'll ensure that fea-
tures such as numbered lists work in a more predictable manner.
In addition to columns, you also learned how to format individual words within
an Mtext entity. You can also italicize individual words and give them a different
color or height from the rest of the Mtext by using the other tools on the Multiline
Text panel. I encourage you to experiment with all these tools to become familiar
with them. Another feature of Mtext is the ability to insert hyperlinks.
Adding a Hyperlink
You have the ability to add hyperlinks , links to web pages or files, to the body of an
Mtext object. When a hyperlink to a URL exists, anyone with the drawing open can
hold down the Ctrl button and click the link to open the associated page in their
web browser. Hyperlinks can also point to local or network files, causing the file's
associated application to open when they are clicked. Here is the procedure for
adding a hyperlink:
1. Double-click the Mtext object.
2. Highlight the text where you want the hyperlink to appear.
3. Right-click and choose Insert Field from the context menu (see
Figure 8.63), or click the Field button in the Insert panel.
 
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