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Numbered and lettered list formatting

Numbered and lettered list formatting - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Numbered and lettered list formatting

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- [Instructor] So again we're staying in the convert to MTEXT.dwg file. And what we're going to look at now is numbered and lettered list formatting. Now that kind of sounds a bit strange, I know. It all sounds very, very technical and as we're in an auto cavity, you'd expect it to be technical anyway but what we're going to look at is single line text that has letters and numbers in a list. So you'll notice I've got some single line text here that says auto-number and it starts with number one and goes down two, and three, and four. Now if I just double click this number one auto-number as if I was going to edit it, you'll notice that it's just a number one with a period or full stop if you're English and a space and then the words auto-number. I'll just hit escape to de-select it. Now, what the convert to MTEXT command does is it allows you to pick up that one dot space and covert it to formatted numbered or lettered text. So let's have a look and see how that works. Let's use one…

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