topic Re: Text getting changed when Copying to new Document in AutoCAD Forum

Text getting changed when Copying to new Document

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:17:51 GMT

I am trying to take a large notes section of a drawing and paste it into another different drawing.

When I paste these notes (MText Boxes) into the other drawing, the font changes and on some lines (its a 1-99 style list) there is randomly an indent after the list number.

Is there a way to fix this without having to go through each and every line, changing the font and realigning the text on the ones that got indented?

Re: Text getting changed when Copying to new Document

cheryl.buck — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:31:14 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I see that you are visiting as a new member to the AutoCAD forum. Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

That seems very annoying. Which version of AutoCAD are you seeing this in?

Was the text typed into AutoCAD, copied in from another program, or a data link? Are you copying using Windows copy (CTRL+C) or the AutoCAD COPYBASE command?

Can you provide the files for testing?

All the best,

Re: Text getting changed when Copying to new Document

pendean — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:19:38 GMT

text style settings in the destination file will override text style settings from the source file: that's how AUtoCAD works. Could this be your issue? You can't override it, you have to ensure ahead of time all text style match.

Re: Text getting changed when Copying to new Document

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:45:35 GMT

Try to make the text portions into a block and then paste the block into the new drawing. Mtext doesn't always cooperate like you want it to. Not a fix but a work around.

Re: Text getting changed when Copying to new Document

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:47:07 GMT

That sounds like the most likely cause.
I just formatted the text and fixed the changes.
Thank you