Drafting Techniques

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Hi!  My company recently switched from using Microstation to AutoCAD, and I haven't been able to find a quick way to select text at its center point, and align the text with the center of an object, be it a circle, a line, what have you.  In Microstation I used to snap to the center of the text, select the text, then snap to the center of the object I wanted the text to be centered to.  Is there anyway to do this in AutoCAD 2010?  My company is converting drawings from Microstation to AutoCAD, so I don't have time to create blocks or anything like that in theory.  I also am totally unfamiliar with LISPs, just so you know where I am knowledge-wise with CAD.  Consider me an advanced beginner user.  Thanks! 

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Q.  I haven't been able to find a quick way to select text at its center point

A. Use command TJUST and change your justification of your texts.

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Thanks for the reply, Janet!  It's not the actual text justification or the justification of the text that is my ultimate problem though.  After asking around at work I did find out that I didn't have my Insertion Object Snap on, so I've turned that on now. 

Now my problem is CAD isn't tracking when I do select a text element by its alignment node and try to line it up with another text element's node.  It's very bizarre, I never have a problem with objects!  It's just text elements.

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To align with another text already rotated, you can you MATCHPROP command.

To align text with a line, there are autolisp that you can use, they are all over the net.