Change text properties of Text and Mtext at the same time

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am in AutoCAD 2019.

I have a drawing with many different instances of Text, and many different instances of Mtext. (I didn't draw this drawing, and the locations of which objects are Text and which objects are Mtext are basically random and a mess - for example, there are several "paragraphs" which are actually made up of individual lines of Text, rather than Mtext). In this drawing, there are 360 instances total of Text and Mtext.  What I'm trying to do is use FILTER to select all the text on the sheet, and change the text style of all the text at once. But the problem is, when I use FILTER to select text, it selects instances of Text and instances of Mtext at the same time.  And when I select instances of Text and instances of Mtext at the same time, the program disables me from changing any of the text properties of the selected objects (such as text style, text height, etc.). And in the FILTER command, I cannot find a way to select only Text or only Mtext. 

Is there a way to either:

1) Select just the Text in the drawing, or just the Mtext in the drawing? (I can't find that in the FILTER command).

or

2) Change the text properties (such as text height, text style) of both Text and Mtext at the same time when both types of objects are selected simultaneously?

Also, I do know about the Express Tool "Convert Text to Mtext", which I'm going to eventually have to use anyway, because I have been assigned to convert the "paragraphs" of single line Text into real paragraphs in Mtext.  I have also been assigned to change the text style of all the text.  But my desire was to change the text style of all the text first, because that way, when I use "Convert Text to Mtext", all of the text will already be the correct size and style - so that way when I edit and re-layout the paragraphs, I'll only have to re-layout the text/paragraphs once. 

So I'm just checking if there is a way to do any of the above 2 numbered tasks I listed in the above numbered items. In the meantime, I'll probably select all of the instances of Text and Mtext individually and change the text style that way -- or, possibly just use "Convert Text to Mtext" first. But for the future, it would still be useful to me to know if there is a way to do any of the above 2 numbered tasks, so that if there is a way to do either of those things, I have that option in the future. 

Thank you,

Michael Murrin

[pendean]

Nothing built in does that. Sorry. Ask in the LISP forum for help building a customization if one isn't out there already.

[vinodkl · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>>Select just the Text in the drawing, or just the Mtext in the drawing? (I can't find that in the FILTER command)<<

To select only the text or only Mtext you can use the command QSELECT with operator set to "select all"(see screenshot). Doing so will select all the instances of text or Mtext. Then you can use the properties to modify the style.

One thing to note here is that both text and mtext will the follow the font set to them in text style with a condition for mtext wherein you have not overridden the font from while editing the mtext from the text editor tab.

[ВeekeeCZ · Accepted solution]

After making the selection set of mtext and texts, use this drop-down. You will need to change the properties twice anyway.

I think TXT2MTEXT was in 2018 integrated to the core and significantly enhanced. It's also placed in a different location: Insert/Import/Combine Text. Also might want to explore its setting.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, the replies from both BeeKeeCZ and vinodkl worked in terms of selecting just the Text or just the Mtext.