Editing text

You can edit and modify a text entity as you would any other drawing entity. That is, you can delete, move, rotate, and scale text.

You can change the text color or layer in the Properties Bar.

To edit a multiline text, you can use the built-in text editor or choose an external program, such as Wordpad.

To edit a text entity

1. Do one of the following:

2. Click the Edit Text... tool button in the Modify toolbar.

3. Choose Edit Text... in the Modify menu.

4. Type ddedit in the command bar, then press Enter.

The command bar reads: Select entity to modify:

2. Do one of the following:

3. Click a single line text entity.
   The Edit Text window opens.
   
   

4. Click a multiline text entity
   The Text formatting toolbar opens.
   
   

5. Edit the text.

6. Press the OK button on the text editor window or Text formatting toolbar to apply the changes.

7. Do one of the following:

8. Select another text entity to edit.

9. Right click or press Enter to stop editing text entities.

To select an alternate multiline text editor

1. Type mtexted in the command bar, then press Enter.
   The command bar reads: New value for MTEXTED, or . for none/<current value>:

2. Type the file name and full path of the alternate text editor in the command bar, then press Enter.
   e.g. C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\Wordpad.EXE