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Original Tip Date: Mar. 12, 2001 The default font MicroStation uses the first entry in your font resource file as the default font and indicates it as such with an asterisk in the Font Installer dialog. To change the default, create…

Original Tip Date: May 1, 2001 Display a text file in MicroStation To display the contents of a text file while in your design session, use this keyin: type filename.txt AskInga Tip #97

Original Tip Date: May 1, 2001 Scale or rotate your text about a point Need to scale and/or rotate some text about either the origin, justification or center? If so, use SCLTXT which is delivered with MicroStation J and found in…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Where new words go When you add words via the Spell Checker, they get added to the file being pointed to by MS_SPELLINGUSERDICTIONARY . By default this is ...\Bentley\Workspace\system\data\msspell…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Editing Dictionary Files Did you know that you can open and edit Spell Checker dictionaries with any text based editor? AskInga Tip #311

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Use the same spell checker dictionary as Microsoft Word Bentley's Mike Evans shared this on the v8.general newsgroup. Very cool! To use the same dictionary as you would in Microsoft Word, point MS_SPELLINGUSERDICTIONARY…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Convert single lines of text to a multiline text node If you've got several single lines of text that you'd like to convert to a chunk of multi-line text ... meaning a text node ... try this: Put…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 6, 2003 Quickly see your fonts Can't remember what font 42 looks like? Try keying in show font . Then again, you can get to the same dialog by simply keyin in DF= AskInga…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 28, 2003 TTF and SHX text have font numbers too! MicroStation fonts are numbers 0 - 255. AutoCAD's SHX fonts are numbers 512 - 1023 And, the Windows TTF fonts are numbers 1024 - 65535 …

Original Tip Date: Oct. 29, 2003 Keyin to set the text style to none This cool V8 keyin was authored and posted to the v8.text newsgroup by none other than Phil Chouinard : Use this keyin to set the active text style to none :…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 18, 2003 Define tabs and indents Snipped from MicroStation V8's Help: The Word Processor Text Editor window has a ruler for setting tab stops and indents. The ruler works like the rulers in basic word processing…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 18, 2003 Super fast text editing Snipped from Help: A shortcut exists in V8.5 for editing a text element: Select the Element Selection tool. Position that tool's arrow pointer on the text element you want…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 19, 2003 Put different text in the preview window This is neat...rather than using the name of the text style for the preview window in 8.5, select View > Preview Text from the Text Styles dialog. Select…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 19, 2003 Toggle text preview MicroStation V8.5 - Don't have a need for the text preview in the Text Styles dialog? Then use the Preview Toggle button to turn it off. AskInga…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 25, 2003 Enter text via a keyin regardless of the editor style Chuck Rheault spent three days writing this message on an Etch-A-Sketch: Did you know that if you send /ptext as a keyin, you get a place text…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 25, 2003 Keyins to set text editor style Phil Chouinard found these keyins in the bottom of a box of Cracker Jack's: To change the style of the text editor, use this keyin: null;mdl keyin calculat calculator…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 20, 2004 Dynamic text justification in Place Note To have the Place Note tool dynamically justify the text, go to Element > Dimension Styles > Place Note. Look on the right side, and in the graphic on the…

Original Tip Date: Feb. 11, 2004 Text Editor background color Did you know that the background colour of the Text Editor is the same as the background of the design file? Ha! Thanks to Venkat Kalyan for sharing this. …

Original Tip Date: Feb. 11, 2004 Adjust the text size in the Text Editor or Word Processor Venkat Kalyan shared the following on the discussion groups: In v8.5, you can set the display font size of the Text Editor or Word Processor…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 16, 2004 Get rid of MicroStation Text Window A fast and easy way to dismiss the MicroStation Text Window is to press Enter or hit the space bar . AskInga Tip #412

Original Tip Date: July 2005 Updated: December 2009 Here's a gem from Micahel Hall : If you're using Place Note to place leader lines but not text, change the command to read: place note icon;dmsg closedialog 1 wordproc …

Original Tip Date: Jul. 11, 2005 All about the text preview as seen in the Text Styles dialog By default the name of the text style is also the text shown in the preview window. You can change this to whatever you want by selecting…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 24, 2005 Set Annotation Scale via keyin To set the annotation scale of a model via a keyin, use this one: model set annotationscale [value] Note: The value is derived from the Scale column found in the …

Original Tip Date: Dec. 1, 2005 Finding %% keyins for special characters beyond the 255 limit Jason Hurley has this great tip to find alternate keyins for special characters beyond the 255 limit. He writes: I created an Excell…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 5, 2006 Change various text rotations all at once Ever get a file from someone and all the text is at different angles and you need a fast way to rotate them back to 0 degrees? Well, take a look at what…