In AutoCAD you can apply notes to your drawing in various ways.You can type your notes, insert text from other sources, and copy notes that repeat through a drawing.

You can create single line text - TEXT,  and multiline text, - MTEXT. You can also edit and style text.

In this chapter you will learn how to create single-line text and multi-line text , to control the size, type style, font style and orientation of text.

• Create single-line text (TEXT)
• Create multiline-text (MTEXT)
• Editing text
• Text styles

2.1.1 - Create Single line TEXT

Text is the basic command to create text, it creates a field any where you click on the screen, into which you can type any text you need.

Notice that in single-line text, each line is an independent object that you can edit, move, copy, or erase any of the lines without affecting the other lines.

To create single-line text:

1. Click Home tab ► Annotation panel ► Single Line Text
2. Command prompt says: TEXT Specify start point of text or[Justify Style]: Left-click anywhere on your screen to define the start point of text.
3. Command prompt says: TEXT Specify height[0.20 ]: Enter a new height if desired, say 0.25, and press Enter. (This prompt is displayed only if text height is set to 0 in the current text style).
4. Command prompt says: TEXT Specify rotation angle of text[0]: You can rotate the text, but for now just type 0 and press Enter.
5. A text field opens up with blinking cursor, go ahead and type the first line First floor - Bedroom, press Enter once to go to the next line, and type Wall material: Brick , press Enter once to go to the next line, and type Total room area = 15 m2 and then press Enter twice to finish (Fig.1.2.1.1).

Notice that in single-line text, each line is an independent object that you can relocate, reformat or otherwise modify.

Notice that the text is on three separate lines, each line is an independent object that you can edit, move, copy, or erase any of the lines without affecting the other lines.

Fig.3.2.4.1 - Create single-line text (TEXT)

Fig.3.2.4.1 - Create single-line text (TEXT)

Edit single-line text

To edit a single-line text, e.g. change the properties of the second line as : content = Wall material: Red Brick, color = red, height = 0.15, to do this:

• On the Drawing Status bar (at the bottom-right of AutoCAD drawing area), turn ON the Quick Properties icon (it's color turns to cyan).
• Select the line of text you want to change, the Quick Properties box will open besides the text, where you can make the changes you want.
  Alternatively:
• Select the line of text you want to change, right-click any where and select 'Properties'.
• The Properties palette will open, where you can make the changes you want. You can change color, height, content, layer etc, and to the end press Esc

The result is as shown in Fig.2.1.1.2

Fig.3.2.1.2 - Edit single-line text (TEXT)

Fig.3.2.1.2 - Edit single-line text (TEXT)

2.1.2 - Multiline Text (MTEXT)

A multiline text (MTEXT) object includes one or more lines of text, that consist paragraphs, and can be manipulated as a single object. You can create a multiline text (MTEXT) by entering or importing text. Before entering or importing text, you define the area where the text will go. You specify the opposite corners of a text bounding box that define the width of the paragraphs in the multiline text object.

Create multiline text (MTEXT)

1. Click Home tab ► Annotation panel ► Multiline Text
2. Command prompt says: TEXT Specify first corner : left-click anywhere on your screen, noticing the abc symbol next to the crosshairs, to select a point as start point of text.
3. Command prompt says: TEXT Specify opposite corner [ ]: Move your mouse down and across to the right, a rectangle with an arrow appears, continue to move the mouse to make the rectangle -text field- as large or small you need it to be to hold all the text, and click again when you have define  the field.
4. A text editor tab will appear on the screen, where you will type your text, type the first line and press Enter to go to the next line. Continue and add four more line as shown in Fig.1.2.1.3. To finish up, press click anywher outside the text field.

If you click on mtext you created, you will notice that it remains a paragraph (not single lines), a big difference from a single-line text.

Fig.3.2.1.3 - Create multi-line text (TEXT)

Fig.3.2.1.3 - Create multi-line text (TEXT)

To edit mtext:

• On the Drawing Status bar (at the bottom-right of AutoCAD drawing area), turn ON the Quick Properties icon (it's color turns to cyan).
• Select the mtext you want to change, the Quick Properties box will open besides the text, where you can make the changes you want.

  Alternatively with the Ribbon ON:

• Double-click on mtext you want to change, the ribbon will change to Ribbon's Text Editor.
• Select with your mouse the three first lines on the mtext (their color will change to blue), on ribbon TextEditor Formating panel press the color tab and select as color Red, select the Italic button, the selected lines turned to red and Italic. Now select the next two lines on Text Editor, on Paragraph panel select the Center icon to justify the lines at the center, and click on the Close Editor button.
• The result is as shown in Fig.2.1.1.4.

Fig.3.2.2.1 - Edit multi-line text (MTEXT)

Fig.3.2.2.1 - Edit multi-line text (MTEXT)

2.1.3 - Text Style

Any text in a drawing has a text style associated with this. When you enter text, the program uses the current text style, if you have not created your own text style, AutoCAD has as default the Standard text style.

The current text style sets the font, size, obliquing angle, orientation, default height, and other text characteristics. You can create your own text style, where you set text characteristics you want, and make it current.

Now you'll create a text style called Custom-Standard, which you'll use to add notes to the drawings of your project house99 on which you've been working:

To do this:

• Click Home tab ►on Annotation panel click the arrow icon  the Text Style Dialog box will open (Fig.1.2.0.0).
  
  Fig.3.2.3.1 - Modify - Create Text Style

  

  Fig.3.2.3.1 - Modify - Create Text Style
  Fig.3.2.3.1 - Modify - Create Text Style

• Click the New button to the right in the dialog boxto open the New Text Style dialog box (Fig.1.2.0.0).
• In the New Text Style dialog box, enter custom-standard for the name of your text style, and then click OK.
• In the Text Style dialog box, you will notice in the style's list the new style 'custom-standard' that is the current style (it is shaded grey).
• Click the Font Name drop-down list locate the Courier New font type, and select it.
• In the Size group, select the Annotative option. It specify that the text is annotative.
• In the Paper Text Height box, enter 0.15 (Fig.1.2.0.0).
• To set this text style as current click on the Set Current tab (at top-right corner of the Text Style dialog box)
• Click Close.

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2.1.4 - Edit Text

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