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With a simple freeware utility Txt2Ref you can replace selected texts in your DWG drawing by block references of the same name (or of a single block). So e.g. all occurrences of the text "LAMP" in the drawing are replaced by references of the block "Lamp". The replacement honors layers, rotation, scale and color of the "placeholder" texts.

Download the Txt2Ref application from DL Download, load it into AutoCAD with APPLOAD and start it by typing the TXT2REF command. Select the replaced texts, enter the scale ratio (text height to block scale) and optionally modify the name (text contents) vs. the block name as defined in the drawing (prefix, suffix, or a fixed name). The blocks of the given name must already exist in the DWG drawing.

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See also:
Tip 14690:Text copied from EATTEDIT is pasted as RTF.
Tip 14641:Automatic naming of Inventor drawing sheets according to the first model (iLogic).
Tip 14630:Extended ASCPOINT - import coordinates from CSV file, including blocks with attributes, GPS coordinates, etc.
Tip 14611:Contribution of individual features to the total mass of an Inventor part (iLogic).
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