Original Tip Date: Jan. 11, 2006 Place lots of leader lines with Place Note Oh, wow...now this is cool. Hold down the CTRL key when placing a note, that way you can position more than one leader line. You'll have to upgrade to…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 11, 2006 Text fields By simply doing a right click in the word processor, you can add a text field from the pop up menu, like so: AskInga Tip #597

The editing handles sometimes is not working. When I select the text, I can see the word wrap handles, but just can't drag it to change the line length. Of cause, the text contain several words. The handle for scaling is working fine. I use MS V8i. I…

Original Tip Date: Jun. 14, 2002 Nearest snap and text MicroStation V8 - When using the nearest snap, it'll latch on to text at the locations shown below as red dots. Thanks Phil! AskInga Tip #…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 31, 2002 Alternate text editing handles in V8 MicroStation V8 - Multi-line text has two sets of handles: Modify Handles and Scale Handles . When you select the text the first time, you'll get Modify Handles…

Original Tip Date: Oct 31, 2002 Change single-line text size MicroStation V8 - You can dynamically change the size of single-line text by using the Element Selection tool and dragging one of the Scale Handles to a new location…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 3, 2003 Overcoming problems when placing text from a command line When placing text from a command line, you may end up with the following error: Command not defined for this application . This occurs when…

Original Tip Date: Apr 3, 2003 Force the Word Processor regardless of default MicroStation V8 - Now here's an excellent tip that Phil Chouinard posted to "V8 General" The keyin wordprocessor place text icon force will bring up…

Original Tip Date: Apr 4, 2003 Keyin to set active text style MicroStation V8 - To set the active text style, use this keyin: TEXTSTYLE ACTIVE [text_style_name] Note that text style name is case-sensitive. Also, if you're using…

Original Tip Date: May 2003 Updated: February 2011 MicroStation V8 - The At Least line spacing setting is similar to AutoCAD's in that the distance between adjacent lines of text is calculated as a factor of the text height. In this case, the distance…

Original Tip Date: May 2003 Updated: February 2010 MicroStation V8 - Automatic line spacing is available in the DGN workmode only. The distance to the next line is calculated as: Top of line + Line Spacing + Baseline . The…

Original Tip Date: May 2003 Updated: February 2011 MicroStation V8 - Exact line spacing is available in the DGN workmode only. The distance to the next line is calculated as: Top of line + Line Spacing + Baseline . The baseline is determined by…

Original Tip Date: May 30, 2003 Maximum characters for text element Snipped from MicroStation V8 - Help: The maximum number of characters in a single-line text element is 64,000. AskInga Tip #284

Original Tip Date: Jun. 17, 2003 How to unlock a locked text style MicroStation V8 - If you have text styles in your active file that came from a text style library, and wish to delete them, use the keyin textstyle unlock [textstyle_name…