topic Re: Line Break in Text in Revit Structure Forum

Line Break in Text

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:18:59 GMT

I have a title block with a tag for the sheet name. I know that the text will automatically wrap, but I'd like to force a line break at a point prior to when it would automatically wrap. In Excel you can press to accomplish this. Is there any equivalent in Revit Structure?

Re: Line Break in Text

jhudtwalcker — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 01:39:53 GMT

Hi Stephen

did you solve this problem? if not, here's the solution: you have to pres CRTL+ENTER, but not in the drawing area, but in the properties field... Hope it works

Re: Line Break in Text

MostafaElashmawy — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:12 GMT

Use shift+Enter to do the line break.

Re: Line Break in Text

GallowayUS_com_RonAllen2 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:39:02 GMT

Dang it !:

Revit 2018:

Name cannot contain any of the following characters:
\ : { } [ ] | ; < > ? ` ~
or any of the non-printable characters.

Re: Line Break in Text

GallowayUS_com_RonAllen2 — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:56:39 GMT

Ah- I see in the //**VIEW TITLE ONLY**//in the properties... then it allows ctrl+enter for a force break (Line feed in ASCII(10?)??).

Re: Line Break in Text

Topspap.1994 — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:14:18 GMT

it did work, Thanks

Re: Line Break in Text

mohammad.faraji — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:49:25 GMT

Hi, How did you solve this problem? I received the same error.

Re: Line Break in Text

GallowayUS_com_RonAllen2 — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:50:09 GMT

CTRL+Enter for a force-break on multiline text.

Re: Line Break in Text

dsylvesterWB8T3 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:20:57 GMT

Hello, do you know if this is still true?

When I try ctrl+enter or shift+enter I get an error saying:

"Name cannot contain any of the following characters:

\ : { } [ ] | ; < > ? ` ~

or any of the non-printable characters."

I'm using Revit 2021.

Re: Line Break in Text

SCygielski — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:38:55 GMT

Looks like Autodesk "fixed" this workaround in typical Autodesk fashion.