AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide

Writing and Formatting Paragraphs of Text Using MTEXT

The MTEXT command is a word processing program within AutoCAD that treats all the lines and paragraphs you write as a single object. The powerful MTEXT command gives you word wrap, per-letter style overrides, tabs, inline spell checking, control over line spacing, bulleted and numbered lists, column formatting, and many other features.

MTEXT is ideally suited to writing general notes on drawings and other lengthy blocks of text. In the following steps, you will create and format some unusual general notes. Instead of typing multiple paragraphs, you'll import one of the most famous monologues in the English language and turn it into a series of hypothetical steps.

1. If the file is not already ...