I hear from many of our students & clients, that they are unable to cleanly cut & paste text from Microsoft Word into AutoCAD & Revit, or from AutoCAD & Revit back into Word. If you have ever tried to highlight text in Word, and then just PASTE it into AutoCAD or Revit, you have probably received some surprising results.
In AutoCAD, you will get non-editable raster text with a white background. In Revit, PASTE will do nothing, and it seems like the command does not work. The trick to getting vector text to PASTE correctly is to ACTIVATE A TEXT BOX before copying or pasting the text.
To Copy Text cleanly from Microsoft Word into AutoCAD or Revit:
Step One: Highlight the text in Word & COPY to Clipboard (CNTRL+C)
Step Two: In either AutoCAD or Revit begin the TEXT command
Step Three: Click out in the drawing area to begin the text box
Step Four: Paste the text into the text box (CNTRL+V)
To Copy Text cleanly from AutoCAD or Revit into Microsoft Word:
Step One: In AutoCAD or Revit, double click on the text box you want to copy from to activate it
Step Two: Highlight the text inside of the activated text box, and COPY to Clipboard (CNTRL+C)
Step Three: Paste into Microsoft Word (CNTRL+V)
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