From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Adding text

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- [Instructor] Most architectural documentation includes notes of some kinds, so the simplest ways to add notes to a view in Revit is using the text tool. Now I'm going to be working in an elevation view, but you can use text in any view in Revit: plan, section, elevation, and so on. So the text tool is up here on the quick access toolbar, or you can get to it on the annotate tab right there, or you can type the keyboard shortcut T-X. The types are available over here, so that usually controls the size and the font that you're using, so choose something appropriate for notes, and then, over here, on the leader panel, you can decide whether you want it with or without a leader, so this first note I'm going to do with no leader, just sort of click somewhere, and type in the note that I want to have here. Common mistake that folks make next is they'll press enter to try and complete the note, but notice that that just goes to…

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