To Work With Stacked Text

Create Stacked Text

1. Click Home tabAnnotation panelMultiline Text. Find
2. Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the multiline text object.
3. Enter the text you want to stack separated by one of the following characters:
   • Forward slash (/) stacks text vertically, separated by a horizontal line.
   • Pound sign (#) stacks text diagonally, separated by a diagonal line.
   • Caret (^) creates a tolerance stack, which is not separated by a line.
4. Do one of the following:
   • Select the text, and on the Text Editor tab, on the Formatting panel, click Stack.

     The Text Editor tab is a contextual tab on the ribbon that displays when you select a multiline text object.

   • If you entered numeric characters before and after a forward slash, pound sign, or caret, enter a space or a valid character from the list below. The text stacks automatically.

   Symbol name	Symbol	Symbol name	Symbol
   tilde	~	equal sign	=
   grave accent	`	braces	{ }
   exclamation point	!	brackets	[ ]
   at sign	@	pipe sign	|
   pound sign	#	backslash	\
   dollar sign	$	colon	:
   percent sign	%	semicolon	;
   caret	^	quotation marks	"
   ampersand	&	apostrophe	'
   asterisk	*	less-than and greater-than signs	< >
   parentheses	( )	question mark	?
   underscore	_	comma	,

Change the Properties of Stacked Text

1. Double-click the multiline text object, and select the stacked text.
2. Click the lightning bolt icon that displays near the text.
3. Click Stack Properties.
   
4. In the Stack Properties dialog box, change the settings as needed.
5. To specify properties for automatic stacking, click AutoStack.

Unstack Text

1. Double-click the multiline text object, and select the stacked text.
2. Click the lightning bolt icon that displays near the text.
3. Click Unstack.