Text Notes

To document the design, add text notes to drawings, with or without leaders. Change the text style, if needed.

Annotate tabText Notes panel

Enrich your design documents with additional informational or instructional notations.

Topics in this section

About Text Notes
Add explanatory, instructional, technical, or other text annotations to your drawings.
About Finding and Replacing Text
Use the Find/Replace tool to search the text in notes and detail groups, and replace it with new text.
Video: Use Text Enhancement Tools
Format text to suit your needs when annotating views and sheets.
Video: Add Special Characters and Symbols to Text Notes
Use the Symbols menu, the Windows® Character Map®, or keystroke strings to add special characters to text notes.
Video: Change Text Size
Use Type properties and the Text tool to change the size of dimension, tag, and element text.
Add a Text Note
When you add text notes to a drawing, you can control the display of leader lines, text wrapping, and text format.
Edit a Text Note
After adding a text note, you can edit it to change its position or format, add or adjust leaders, and make other changes.
Add Leader Lines to a Text Note
After adding a text note to a drawing, you can add one or more leader lines to the note, using straight or arc leaders.
Create a List in a Text Note
When adding or editing a text note, you can format the note as a list.
Add a Symbol or Special Character to a Text Note
Choose a symbol from a context menu, select it from the Windows® Character Map®, or use a key sequence to add symbols to text notes quickly without interrupting your workflow.
Check Spelling in Text Notes
The Check Spelling tool checks the spelling of text notes in a selection or in the current view or sheet. This tool does not check the spelling of other types of text, such as text in element properties.
Change the Text Note Type
Use type properties to create different styles for text notes, and then apply the desired type to a new or existing note in a drawing to change its formatting.
Display a Text Box Border
Using the type properties of a text note, you can specify whether to show the graphic representation of the text box border.
Modify the Leader/Border Offset for Text Notes
Using type properties, you can specify the distance between the text box border and the edge of the annotation text. This setting also affects the behavior of leader lines for text notes.
Find and Replace Text in a Text Note
Use the Find/Replace tool to search the text in all notes in the current selection, the current view, or the entire project, and replace it with new text.
Find and Replace Text in a Detail Group
Use the Find/Replace tool to search the text in detail groups in the current selection, the current view, or the entire project, and replace it with new text.
Find and Replace Text in Worksets
Use the Find/Replace tool to search the text in all notes in the current selection, the current view, or the entire project, and replace it with new text. If the text to replace is part of a workset under another user's control, you can place a request with that user.
Text Note Type Properties
Change type properties for text notes to modify their appearance and adhere to organizational standards.
Text Note Instance Properties
Change instance properties for text notes to modify the leader attachment points, text justification, and text orientation.
Leader Arrowhead Properties
These arrow head types can apply to leaders for text notes and dimensions.

Parent topic: Annotation