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convert autocad text to microsoft word

convert autocad text to microsoft word

convert autocad text to microsoft word

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How can I copy autocad text (multiline text) to microsoft word for editing purposes and then paste back to autocad's multiline text function?

RE: convert autocad text to microsoft word

Sure.  In Acad, Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Insert, in Word, Edit / Paste Special / Unformatted Text.  Make your changes in Word, then Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Insert switch to Acad, Edit / Paste or Shift Insert.  Just watch out for font or other format changes that Word makes and you may have to change in Acad to match your drawing style.

RE: convert autocad text to microsoft word

You can make M$ Word your default mtext editor with the "Mtexted" command. To change it to Word, or any other text editor, enter "mtexted" at the command line.  Next, at the prompt, enter the location of the preferred text editor.  For example, my M$ Word on my computer is installed at:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword".
It would look something like this:

CODE

Command: mtexted

Enter new value for MTEXTED, or . for none <"">: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office\Winword

After starting the mtext command, M$ Word will start up.  Enter whatever you need to enter, and then close M$ Word, and you will be prompted with an alert box that says something like
"Do you want to save the changes you made to acm16f.tmp".  Accept the changes.

Tabs are not recognized (at least in ACAD 20002 and before), so you will just have to hit the spacebar a couple of times to mimic a tab.
Hope this wasn't to confusing.  To change the mtext editor back to internal, enter "mtexted" at the command line, and enter a "." (period).

Flores

RE: convert autocad text to microsoft word

Hey Flores,
I am having the trouble that it isn't accepting the changes once they are made, even after accepting the new 'save'.  Could it be a ACAD 2005/WinXP/Word 2003 problem?

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