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Editing text

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- [Instructor] Let's have a look now at editing text in our UsingText.dwg file. I've left the view the same as it was at the end of the last video, and we've got our single-line text here, and we've got our multi-line text here. Let's have a look at editing some single-line text first. Now, to edit single-line text is actually very, very easy. You just double-click on a piece of text. Soon as you do that, you get this blue masking up here, and you can just click in that area there, and you can see that the cursor is flashing. Now sometimes you don't call restrooms restrooms. You do in America, but in the UK for example, these would be known as toilets. So, what I'll do there is we'll call it a toilet, or possibly a WC, toilet WC like that. That's how you edit it. It's that simple. You can use your arrow keys, you can use the mouse. You then press Enter to finish. Now, the nice thing about editing single-line text is it now prompts me for another piece of text to edit. So, I'm going to…

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