Revit: New Text Editor Gems

I had a client ask me about the new text editor in Revit 2017. The questions were asked if they had fixed some of the heartburn compared to the old text editor. When I first gave it a try I thought some of those features that the client had asked hadn’t been added, but I was wrong in that assumption. I haven’t seen anything on this from the blogs and twitter feeds so I thought I had better post and share them.

The first was the dreaded spacing between notes and the numbering, as for it getting confused. Take note to do the spacing between items I just had to use the Shift Key + Enter, just like I would with Microsoft Word.

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You can see that the lower numbering is now repeating when it really should be (3) and (4). This can be fixed but you need to back up and do a backspace in the right location so Revit picks up the numbering again. In this case it is right above where it was getting confused.

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Once the numbering is fixed I can do another Shift Key + Enter to get the spacing…

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