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Converting text to MTEXT with the TXT2MTXT command

Converting text to MTEXT with the TXT2MTXT command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Converting text to MTEXT with the TXT2MTXT command

- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to be looking at the ConvertToMTEXT command, and how we can convert single-line text into multi-line text, quickly and easily. Now, we've got a new drawing, there. It's Convert to MTEXT.dwg. As usual, you can download that from the website to follow along with this particular tip and trick video. Now, what we're going to look at is this drawing, with just some lines of single-line text. Imagine you've got it from a third party, let's say, a contractor, an architect, an engineer, and what they've done is they've used loads of single-line text, instead of multi-line text, which you prefer to use, or it's in the project standards, or whatever. Now, we can convert to multi-line text really quickly and easily. You go to the Express Tools tab on the AutoCAD ribbon, enter the text panel, and there's Convert to Mtext. Now, if I hover over that, you can see the keyboard command is TXT2MTXT. There's too many TXTs in there for…

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