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Text Blocks

You can add text blocks to a model to identify or clarify model elements. Text blocks can include any text you choose, including model version numbers, notes, titles, and captions.

You can add a text block using the Text Block tool on the Drawing Objects toolbar. When you select the tool and click the diagram window background, a text block is added and enables text editing, so you can enter the text directly on the diagram window.

If you add a text block to the diagram window but do not enter any text, the empty text block displays as an asterisk (*) on your diagram window. You can select the empty text block and delete it or add text to it exactly the same as in any other text block.

You can add consecutive multiple text blocks by pressing the CTRL key before you click the text block tool. When you click again in the diagram window, another text block is created. If you add text blocks this way, you first create multiple empty text areas and then must return to each text area to enter the text.

Text blocks are stored at the stored display level.

Any available keyboard character can be used in a text block, including the Tab key. You can add line breaks by pressing the Enter key.

You can edit a text block by right-clicking the text block, choosing Properties, and then clicking the Text tab.

You can also set the alignment and spacing between text blocks by using the Alignment toolbar.