How to override text formatting

[GrahamT]

Hello All

 

I keep hitting a problem with text formatting which I just can't solve.

 

When I double click on any MTEXT, it will show the text style as (for example) STANDARD, but when I change that in the properties dialog to (for example) ARIAL, nothing changes in the text style. I've found the only way to change it to the font you want is to go to the text formatting palette and manually change it there for each text item. See example below:

 

You can see that in example2 I've changed the text style to ARIAL but the text remains as SIMPLEX. The only way I can change it is to double click then change it in the text formatting palette to ARIAL as shown in example1. This makes changing the text very cumbersome across a drawing. Please note, the example here happens to be in a table, but it happens outside of tables too.

 

Surely there is a way to stop this happening and make the text change to what you want it to be?

 

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

GrahamT

[SLW210]

There are several LISP programs around for stripping MTEXT.

 

Solved: strip mtext formatting - Autodesk Community

 

Re: StripMText Issue - Autodesk Community

 

In the MText Editor there is a down arrow on the top right, scroll down to Remove Formatting.