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Create Annotative Text
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To update text to reflect the current annotative properties of the text style

  1. Click Format menu Text Style.At the command prompt, enter style.
  2. In the Text Style dialog box, Styles list, select the style used by the text that you want to update.
    NoteA icon next to a text style name indicates that the style is already annotative.
  3. Under Size, select Annotative.
  4. In the Paper Text Height box, enter the height of the text as it will display on paper.
  5. Click Apply.
  6. (Optional) Click Set Current to set this style as the current text style.
  7. Click Close.
  8. In the drawing, select all the text objects (text and mtext) that you want to update.
  9. At the command prompt, enter annoupdate.
 Command entry: STYLE