Discovering AutoCAD 2020

Chapter Seven: Text

Chapter Objectives

• Enter single-line text with justification options

• Enter text on an angle, and enter text using character codes

• Enter multiline text using MTEXT

• Edit text in place with TEXTEDIT

• Modify text with the Quick Properties palette

• Use the SPELL command

• Change fonts and styles

• Change properties with MATCHPROP

• Scale previously drawn entities

• Create tables and fields

• Use AutoCAD templates, borders, and title blocks

Introduction

Now, it’s time for a discussion of adding text to your drawings. In this chapter, you learn to find your way around AutoCAD’s TEXT and MTEXT commands. In addition, you learn many new editing commands that often are used with text but are equally important for editing other objects.