Sets the formatting attributes for text styles.
Other styles can reference the text style as a substyle to set formatting. For example, the dimension style uses the text style to format dimension text and the parts list style uses the text style for parts lists text.
Access
Ribbon:
Manage tab
Styles and Standards panel
Styles Editor
. In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, click Text. If available, click one of the listed styles to view or edit.
For the current document, you can click:
- Back to return to the previously edited style. You are prompted to save the previous edits.
- New to create new styles. Select the Add to Standard check box to add to the available styles list in the active standard style.
- Save to save changes to an existing style in the current document.
- Reset to return style values to the saved values.
- Filter to show Local Styles, Styles in the Active Standard, or All Styles in the browser.
- Import to use the Import Style Definition dialog box to import a style exported from another document.
On the Manage tab, Styles and Standards panel, you can also use these commands:
- Click Update to refresh the style list in the browser pane to include new or changed styles in the library.
- Click Save to save changed styles to the style library, which replaces the style library version with the new values.
- Click Purge to delete unused styles from the document.
The Paragraph Settings box sets spacing, value, stretch, and color. When overridden using the Format Text dialog box, these settings apply to the entire text object only, and cannot be changed for individual lines or characters.
- Spacing
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Specifies the spacing between the bottom of one line of text and the bottom of the next line of text. Click the arrow to select.
- Value
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When line spacing is set to Exact or Multiple, specifies the value for line spacing.
- % Stretch
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Specifies the text width. Enter 100 to display the text as designed, enter 50 to decrease the width of the text by 50%.
- Color
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Specifies the text color. Click the color button, and then select a color from the Color dialog box. Text color can be set to By Layer.
- Justifications
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Click Left, Center, or Right Justification, or Top, Middle, or Bottom Justification to apply the justification to the text style.
- Rotation
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Rotates the text. Select a button to specify the angle of rotation for the text.
In Character Formatting, set font, text size, and emphasis. Attributes can be overridden on individual characters in the text of the object.
- Font
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Specifies the font for the text style. Click the arrow and select from the list.
- Text Height
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Sets the height of the text in sheet units (inches or millimeters). Enter the size or click the arrow and select a size from the list.
- Emphasis
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Click Bold, Italic, or Underline to apply the style to the text.
- Italicize Symbols
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Click Italic to enable this check box.
Uncheck the box to exclude symbols for dimensions and hole/thread notes to be displayed in italic font.
In the Comments box, enter a comment about the definition of a particular style, such as date created, created by, or derived from a particular standard.