Some useful tricks to cut/copy & paste text from word to AutoCad and Revit

Joe Eichenseer, a Building Solutions Team Manager with IMAGINiT Technologies, has presented some useful tricks on how to cut/copy & paste text from a doc file to AutoCad and Revit.

 

Several Students as well as clients always face problems while going to cut & paste text properly from Microsoft Word into AutoCAD & Revit, and vice versa.

 

If anyone follows the general process like highlight text in Word, and then just paste it into AutoCAD or Revit, he/she may not get desired results.

 

In AutoCAD, one will receive non-editable raster text having a white background. In Revit, it seems that paste function will not work. The easiest way to have vector text to paste properly is to turn on a text box prior to copy or paste the text.

Maintain the following processes to Copy Text properly from Microsoft Word into AutoCAD or Revit:

 

• Highlight the text in Word & COPY to Clipboard (shortcut key CNTRL+C).
• In either AutoCAD or Revit go with the TEXT command.
• To initiate the text box, click the mouse in the drawing area.
• Paste the text into the text box (shortcut key CNTRL+V).

Process for copying Text properly from AutoCAD or Revit into Microsoft Word:

 

• In AutoCAD or Revit, to turn on the text box, double click on the text box from where one likes to copy from.
• Highlight the text within the activated text box, and COPY to Clipboard (shortcut key CNTRL+C).
• Paste into Microsoft Word (shortcut key CNTRL+V).