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There are a number of ways of editing text in Dimensions in AutoCAD, so let's have a look at editing some Dimension Text. We have two Dimensions available to us, the 1, 4, 8 and the 8, 0. So let's have a look at editing the 1, 4, 8 first, the overall external Dimension there. I'm going to use Dim Edit, D-I-M E-D-I-T, I'm going to type that in and I'm going to press Enter and it'll prompt me for the type of Dimension Editing. I'm just going to go for New, I want a New Edit, I want to add new information to the Dimension. Now what you'll notice is I go to the Multi Line Text Tab and I get this funny little zero with some background masking there and a flashing cursor. What I'm going to do there is use the Arrow keys to get the cursor to the other side of that background mask zero. What that background mask zero is, is the true Dimension, the one 1, 4, 8. So if I press the Spacebar now and then put dashed space and put full external, say it's the full external dimension. What I do now is when I close the text Editor here and come into the drawing it prompts me to select objects. If I select my 1, 4, 8 Dimension and press Enter it leaves the original text there but also puts the full external Dimension Edit that I've put in there. Now that's all well and good but what happens if I want to edit that or not, I only want to show full external. Well what I can do there is I can click on that Dimension, Right Click and go to Properties. Let's have a look at the properties of that Dimension. If I scroll down in the Properties Palette, look I have a text overwrite, that Dim edits supplied the text overwrite to the 1, 4, 8 Dimension. If I click in here and I just delete everything in front of full external like that and press Enter look what happens. I now only have full external on my Dimension Line and it still all part of the Dimension. So how do I bring that back, how do I bring back my true Associative Dimension? Well I click on it again, I Right Click and I go to Properties and if I look in the Text override Field here what I do is I click in here again and I put the less then and greater then symbols. Those denote the true dimension and then space -space and press Enter. Now when I close the Properties Palette you can see there that my 1, 4, 8 my true Dimension is back. I can also do this for the AC Dimension if I want to, I can do it for any Dimension I want but what I want to put here is I want to put AC DIA, diameter, so I click here like so, I Right Click and go to Properties and what I can do here in the text field is I can put some ASCII Code in instead. So what I'll do here is I'll click here like this and put less then, greater then and then space and then percent, percent, C, for circle and press Enter and what that does is it puts the Diameter Symbol in for me and there's my Diameter Symbol using ASCII Code. That is how you edit Dimension text in AutoCAD.