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Aligning text

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- [Voiceover] Once you've placed your text into an AutoCAD drawing, there will be occasions where you need to align the text, or justify the text. Now, in previous videos and exercises, we've already done that. All of the text that we've placed is Middle Centered. But what happens if we want to edit the text, and edit that alignment, and change it? We can do that, either on single-line text, or multiline text. Let's have a look at the multiline text first. Let's go to Office 1 Sales here. So I click on it once to select it, and then double click it. That opens up the Text Editor on the ribbon. I then highlight the text like so, and all I've gotta do, is go up to Justification here on the ribbon, and select something like, let's say, Top Left or Middle Left. Let's do Middle Left, like so, and that will Justify it to a Middle Left point. I click away from the text, and you can see the difference there. It's all gone to the left-hand side. So let's do Middle Right for Office 2. Again, I…

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