Formats a text box.
Some options on the command bar are available only when the cursor is inside the text box. For example, you cannot use the Select Symbols button until you click inside the text box.
Other options, like Text Control and Fill Color, are not available unless the text box or text string is selected like this:
Properties
Displays the Text Box Properties dialog box.
Style
Lists and applies the available styles.
Text scale
Applies a scale value to the current text height. Increasing or decreasing the text scale changes the overall text size. The default is 1.0.
Font
Lists and applies the available fonts.
Font size
Applies a text size.
Text color
Displays the Color palette for you to choose a text color from the default color palette.
You also can click More to open the Color dialog box, which you can use to define a custom color.
Bold
Makes text bold.
Italic
Italicizes text.
Underline
Underlines text.
Stack
Displays the Stack dialog box for you to specify the content and appearance of fractions, superscript, and subscript text.
To learn how, see the Help topic, Format a fraction, superscript, or subscript.
Bullets and Numbering
Creates a bullet list or a numbered list. When you select Bullet, you can choose from the list of available bullets, which are illustrated in the following table. When you select Numbered, you can choose plain numbers, Roman numerals, or the Latin alphabet.
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Bullets |
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Name |
Bullet |
Font |
Character Code |
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Decimal |
Hexadecimal |
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Filled Round |
• |
Symbol |
183 |
00B7 |
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Hollow Round |
o |
Courier New |
111 |
006F |
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Filled Square |
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Wingdings |
167 |
00A7 |
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Hollow Square |
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Wingdings |
113 |
0071 |
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Star |
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Wingdings |
118 |
0076 |
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Arrow |
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Wingdings |
216 |
00D8 |
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Check mark |
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Wingdings |
252 |
00FC |
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Dash |
-– |
(normal text) |
45 |
002D |
The Bullets and Numbering menu also contains the following options to control list numbering as you type:
No List—Applies normal paragraph formatting. Ends a list you have started.
Restart Numbering—For the selected lines in a numbered list, restarts the numbering sequence from the beginning, depending on the numbering style you are using. This applies to the selected lines and any lines that follow the selection.
Continue Numbering—Adds the selected paragraphs to the last used list, and continues the list numbering.
Increase Indent—Increases the indentation of the selected paragraph or list by the amount in the Default tab stops box on the Indents and Spacing tab of the Text Box Properties dialog box.
This option applies to all paragraphs, with or without lists.
Decrease Indent—Decreases the indentation of the selected paragraph or list by the amount in the Default tab stops box on the Indents and Spacing tab of the Text Box Properties dialog box.
This option applies to all paragraphs, with or without lists.
To learn how, see the Help topic, Format a bulleted or numbered list.
Justification
Aligns text horizontally and vertically with respect to the left, right, top, bottom, and center of the text box. A total of nine text justification options are available.
Border
Displays a border around text.
Note:
If you want to display a text box border greater than 2 mm, you must select the Display As Printed check box on the View tab of the Solid Edge Options dialog box.
Text Control
Specifies how text size is managed within the text box border.
Fit to Content
Automatically sizes the width of the text box to its contents.
Use this option to ensure that the border always fits around text strings.
Fixed—Adjust Aspect Ratio
Maintains the width of the callout to be exactly the value specified in the Width box by automatically adjusting the aspect ratio. This changes the width of all of the characters in the callout text, without changing their height.
Fixed—Wrap Text
Automatically wraps the text that extends beyond the specified line width. A new line is started each time the characters in a word exceed the width of the callout box.
Text Orientation
Specifies that the text is oriented horizontally or vertically in the text box or text string.
Vertically oriented text is displayed so that it can be read vertically, from top to bottom. Each character in the text box is displayed on a line by itself.
When you use vertically oriented text, you should adjust the Text Control setting to ensure that the text is displayed vertically, as intended, and does not wrap or scale.
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Text Orientation |
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Horizontal |
Vertical |
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Fill Color
Specifies the fill color for the text box.
Select Symbols
Opens the Select Symbols and Values dialog box, which you can use to select a symbol for insertion at the current cursor position in the text box. Examples of the types of symbols you can select include ± (plus minus), ° (degree), and ∅ (diameter).
Insert Character
Opens the Character Map dialog box, which you can use to select and insert special Microsoft font characters into the text box. Special characters are those which are not available on the keyboard.
