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Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

dkrampen — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:07:25 GMT

I have a line of text that has created a custom bullet. I am attempting to recreate this custom bullet. The line of text says, "SEE: TEST A" I assume that tab was hit after the colon. When I go to recreate this I open an mtext window, I type in see:, I press tab and enter my text. My assumption is when I press enter a bullet will be created. This is not the case. What am I doing wrong? I included a sample dwg with the culprit and my attempt to recreate. Thanks for the help!

Re: Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

dkrampen — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:11:44 GMT

WRONG FILE HERES THE RIGHT ONE!

Re: Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

dkrampen — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:20:44 GMT

So the plot thickens. I reopened the drawing. I noticed both texts had a bullet now. I noticed that when I created the bullet: put in a letter bullet, enter punctuation, hit tab, end information and hit enter, it doesn't create the next bullet. But if I go through the same procedure and then left click off the text and then re-select the text, my text has a bullet attribution. What the heck is going on?

Re: Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

Victoria.Studley — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:50:40 GMT

Hi @dkrampen,

It's a bit difficult to understand exactly what's happening based on your description. Could you record a quick Screencast and post it in your response, so that we can see exactly what's happening in real time on your end?

When I try the same workflow in AutoCAD 2018, the bulleted and lettered lists seem to be working as designed.

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Re: Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

Victoria.Studley — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:40:26 GMT

Hi @dkrampen,

Do you still need help with this issue? Will you be able to record a quick Screencast to show us what's happening?

Re: Creating bullets in mtext using punctuation and pressing tab

john.vellek — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:53:16 GMT

Hi @dkrampen,

When I opened the second attachment you added, I am able to rt-click after the Letter "bullet" and it creates the next bullet just fine. I am not sure about your other test with the punctuation so it would be nice to see a Screencast as requested by @Victoria.Studley.

I did check the drawing for errors and everything appears to be fine. Perhaps this is just a display issue. Have you tried toggling any of the features in GRAPHICSCONFIG to see if makes any difference? Or, perhaps turning off Hardware Acceleration altogether?