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Selecting Text Wrap Handles

The inclusion of text wrap in MicroStation V8 was much appreciated by the majority of users. It was also possible in later versions to wrap text that had been placed by origin by selecting its modify handle and dragging the text width in or out. The problem with this was that you didn’t always get the right modify handle on the first click and you ended up stretching the width of the text rather than changing the width of the paragraph! In MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you can toggle between the handles displayed on text by pressing the Alt key once.

With the handles displayed as squares, manipulating the text handles results in the text being stretched.

Pressing Alt once will change the handles to be circular. Manipulating one of these results in the paragraph width being changed.

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