I have created a word document and saved it to a .txt file, however when I import it into my drawing it loses all of its justification. I am using Microsoft Word and coping to word pad and saving it to the .txt file. I use to use an older version of note pad to do this but save it as an ASCII file and it worked good. I would like to be able to import my text file into my drawing and have it keep the left and right justification straight like a page and keep the spacing the same, so if anyone can help me with this, please help me, I'm sure someone out there has had this issue as well. Thank you
MicroStation Forum - importing a .txt file and have it come in with the right justifications as the word document
The default format that Microsoft Word usually works with is a .doc file format which can contain formatting for the justification of the text. If you then save this Word document to a .txt format file all of the formatting will be removed. What you could try is WordPad or NotePad with the Import > text option or possibly just pasting it directly from the WordPad or NotePad file into the Word Processor.
As Andrew said The ascii .txt file will not hold the formatting. At one time, back when Bentley was not handling the text formatting from Word very well. We used the Notepad method to strip the formatting out of the text. Bentley is handling the formatting much better now.
Just select the text in the Word .doc file then do a Copy (Ctrl+C) to the Windows Clipboard.
In M-Sta. set-up the text settings as you were going to place text in the file. Kick off the Place Text command and in the Word Processor dialog do a Ctrl+V = Paste
This should place the text in the Word Processor dialog with the formatting.
If you see a background in the Text Editor dialog it is only temporary till you place the text in the file. If the text still has a Background after placing it in the file, check the Text Style setting (Element > Text Styles) to see if a Background toggle is set. If so turn it off and place the text again.
Thanks for the input Andrew, unfortunately that doesn't work. If I just do a copy and paste I get the white background with the text, I just want the text. Like I said I use to be able to do it with the older version of Note pad. I would type in word, open it in note pad and save it back to an ASCII file. Then I could import the text into my drawing by using the import text function through Microstation and I would get the text with all the right justifications.