Block Attribute Text Extraction.

[Anonymous]

When I insert a field in my multi-text object that is being pulled from an attribute on my titleblock, the field is surrounded by a gray box.  Is there anyway to change that so it appears as just regular text?  

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the grey background is just for the display, so you can see that this is a field value, it is not printed.

If you don't want that you can turn off FIELDDISPLAY (>>>details<<<)

HTH, - alfred -

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

@Alfred.NESWADBA's great answer is absolutely correct.  The field background is displayed so that you know the text is not a piece of Mtext but that it is a field.  It should not affect formatting or printing.

[Anonymous]

Perfect.  I also learned that there is a command, UPDATEFIELD, that will update text on selected objects or depending on how the FIELDEVAL variable is set, running a REGEN command will update the all the MText that contains field data.  

[john.vellek]

HI @Anonymous,

Right you are. I hope that the feature proves useful to your work flow.