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- Specify opposite corners of a bounding box to define the width of the multiline text object.
- Set text style and other multiline text properties as needed in the In-Place Text Editor
- Enter special characters to indicate how selected text should be stacked.
- Slash (/) stacks text vertically, separated by a horizontal line.
- Pound sign (#) stacks text diagonally, separated by a diagonal line.
- Carat (^) creates a tolerance stack, which is not separated by a line.
Note: The automatic stacking feature applies only to numeric characters immediately before and after the slash, pound sign, and carat. For tolerance stacking, the +, -, and decimal character also stack automatically.If you enter numbers separated by stack characters and then enter a nonnumeric character or press SPACEBAR, the AutoStack Properties dialog box is displayed.
- In the AutoStack Properties dialog box, you can choose to automatically stack numbers (not nonnumeric text) and to remove leading blanks. You can also specify whether the slash character creates a diagonal fraction or creates a vertical fraction. If you do not want to use AutoStack, click Cancel to exit the dialog box.
- To stack characters manually within the In-Place Text Editor, select the text to be formatted, including the special stacking character, and right-click. From the shortcut menu, click Stack.
- To save your changes and exit the editor, use one of the following methods:
- Click OK on the toolbar.
- Click in the drawing outside the editor.
- Press CMD+ENTER.