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How to display 4 grips in the corners of MText?

If you are used to manipulating MText objects with the four grips in the corners of the text frame, you can still use them instead of the simplified grips of MTexts in AutoCAD 2010 (and higher).

To return to the pre-2010 behaviour of mtext grips, switch off dynamic columns. Before you create the text, set the MTEXTCOLUMN variable to 0 (instead of the default 2). If you want to change an existing paragraph text object, change its property (Ctrl+1) "Columns" to "No columns".

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26.11.2009 880x

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applies to: AutoCAD 2010 · AutoCAD LT 2010 · AutoCAD Architecture 2010 ·

See also:
Tip 6716:	How to display the text editor toolbar?
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