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Title: Mtext
Post by: fish on November 05, 2018, 02:00:00 PM

Hello all, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.  AutoCad 2018 Lt, I'm in mtext and my text appears with these big open spaces between some of the words, I cannot control them or know how to delete them.  I don't see any tabs or other kind of formatting to cause this.  We just updated to 2018 from 2007 so its a little different than what i'm use to.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Please see attachment and thanks!

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: ChrisCarlson on November 05, 2018, 02:17:29 PM

Are you sure it's not an excessive quantity of space characters? Adjust the width of the mText and see what/where the lines go.

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: cadtag on November 05, 2018, 02:47:19 PM

Looks like extra carriage returns....

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: fish on November 05, 2018, 03:05:39 PM

Nope, not extra carriage returns.  See the attached pdf for what happened after I deleted the space following the words bolts and rods.

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: ronjonp on November 05, 2018, 03:24:10 PM

Maybe post the drawing.

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: Bryco on November 05, 2018, 03:28:27 PM

TRY killing the ruler, I hate the ruler

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: fish on November 05, 2018, 03:34:26 PM

Its extremely frustrating, even new mtext has this behavior.  Could this be happening because some of the old text was first generated in 2007?

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: fish on November 05, 2018, 03:47:42 PM

Thats what it is, 2018 is not liking the way it was first generated in 2007.  I opened it in 2007 (after save as to older version) and the mtext is perfect.  Just great, nice update... :x

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: MP on November 05, 2018, 04:00:18 PM

Quote from: Bryco on November 05, 2018, 03:28:27 PM

TRY killing the ruler, I hate the ruler

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Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: Bryco on November 05, 2018, 04:04:40 PM

Did you try setting the mtext ruler to nothing (drag it left).  I see it in the pdf

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: Manimalcracker on November 05, 2018, 04:06:10 PM

If all else fails, copy/paste to a notepad then paste it back into AutoCAD. It'll dump any weird formatting.

Title: Re: Mtext
Post by: fish on November 05, 2018, 04:13:10 PM

Killing the ruler didn't work but taking the ruler to nothing is much better, at least I can manipulate it now.  I tried to use the old mtext editor via the mtexted command and typed in oldeditor and that did very bad things to my drawing...

Anways its somewhat workable now thanks to all!