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In this particular section we're going to look at the Mirror Text Variable available in the Mirror Command or for use with the Mirror Command. Now, you'll notice we're back in our office environment with our phone, our computer, our desk and our chair. This time, though, we have text on the drawing. So if we perform Mirror now, you'd expect that text to mirror as well with the objects. Now, it doesn't. Now, the reason for that is the Mirror Text Variable is set to zero by default and that is like off. If you set it to zero, Mirror Text is off. If you set Mirror Text to one, the Mirror Text is on, which means the text will reverse when the objects and the text are mirrored. So let's have a look at that and see how that works. The first thing we do is we need to make sure that our Mirror Text Variable is set to zero. So all we do is we type M-i-r-r-o-r T-e-x-t and press Enter. AutoCAD will prompt you for the new value for Mirror Text. Notice the default setting is zero. So we can just press Enter there to accept that default setting of zero. So if I now perform a Mirror Command in AutoCAD, I go to Mirror and I select not only my desk but I select the text as well, my phone, my text again, my computer, my text there, chair and text there as well. What I'm going to do now is mirror those. So I press Enter to confirm the objects and then it prompts me for the first point of the mirror line. So I do the same process as I did before. I go to the midpoint here at the bottom. I've got Polar Tracking on so I can just drag straight up that 90-degree line and left click anywhere for my second mirror point. Erase source objects? I'm going to accept the N for No by pressing Enter. Notice the text has not mirrored as you can see. So that's great news because everything looks exactly the way it does in the left-hand cubicle. Now, what would have happened there if I'd actually said to AutoCAD, I want the text to mirror with the objects, but also I want to erase the source objects. Well, let's undo what we've just done. There's Undo there, so I hit Undo. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to type M-i-r-r-o-r T-e-x-t again and this time set the value to one and press Enter. Now let's do that Mirror Command again. Mirror, select the objects, make sure you select the text as well. If you don't select the text it's not going to mirror in any way, shape or form, is it? So once you've got all the objects selected, press Enter. Specify the first point of your mirror line again. So I'm going to select that midpoint there and left click and drag vertically upwards. Can you see the text mirroring now? I'm going to left click anywhere on my 90-degree Polar Tracking line from my second mirror point. Erase source objects? If I say yes now, Y for Yes and press Enter, the original objects disappear and only the mirrored objects stay. Now, if I save this drawing, what'll happen is that Mirror Text Variable is drawing-specific variable so it will stay at one when somebody else opens up that drawing after I've saved it. You have to always check your Mirror Text Variable to make sure that you know whether it is set to one or zero. You could end up with instances like this where all of your text is the wrong way round. So what we do there is we leave the Mirror Text Variable now set to one and we do another mirror. If I select Mirror now and select all of these objects here to mirror like so, I'm going to press Enter to confirm, say mirror line again. So I go vertically. Look what happens. Can you see what the Mirror Text Variable set to one? Because they're originally reversed, if I select anywhere on that Polar Tracking line now, erase source objects? Yes, I will. And we are now back to square one again. So I've reversed them but they were already reversed in the first place. So I've done a reverse of a reverse and got my text back to the original settings that it was at.