Maybe there is a better way to convey (or abbreviate) the file path on the drawing than what I’ve been doing. My issue is when the path gets long the text spills off the page. I cant seem to find a way to control or constrain the text box, ideally allow text to wrap into 2 lines horizontally within the border for example. Any suggestions?
If you stretch the text box to your max length, it should wrap the text to that.
Here I stretched to length,
Then added more text.
Thanks. That’s what I tried too which proves it will wrap if filled with random input text like your example. But in this case its retrieving the path string which can be any length depending on where drawing resides. Its like the template is auto sizing based on its current (template) path & locks that text box size which may not accommodate or auto-adjust a longer string.
the problem is that the file path has no where to wrap the text as there are no spaces in the path. if there was a way to convert the path to text you could possibly have it wrap to the next line.
That was not true, I was able to shrink down the text for my file paths and it was able to wrap it. I may be harder to control but give it a try by editing the sheet on one of the long drawings and modifying the text box to get multiple lines. Then you may want to save that out as a sheet format to replace the files that have an extensive file locations system. SW 2024 SP5
Simplifying the file management system, would be the ideal solution for this other than not having that info on the drawing and using tools found at https://www.voidtools.com/ to search for files. I have configured 3 starts for this one searches my vault, another will search released drawings, and the default one is set up like the other guys that will search all the locations we put files.
What release of SW are you on? I seem to recall at one time it was not possible to wrap linked text, but it seems to work for me now on 2025…
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Does it though? Why is it wrapping the file name to line 3? It does the same thing to me with SW 2017 SP5:
I assume you used
$PRPSHEET:"SW-Folder Name(Folder Name)"$PRP:"SW-File Name(File Name)"
for you annotation text. I think the trailing backslash on the folder path may be getting misinterpreted somehow.
No assumption needed… the first image was the link text. 
I didn’t really notice that the filename got additionally wrapped to line 3 even though it was short enough to have stayed on line 2. If I remember right, last time I looked at it, it wouldn’t wrap anything that was linked, so when I saw a wrap at all I was like, “it’s fixed”.
Sorry, forgot to mention I’m running 2024 SP 5.0
I don’t recall it ever not working. I’ve got an annotation in my drawing templates linked to a description property that has been happily wrapping to 3 lines as needed for as long as I can remember. It’s even embedded inside a block. It’s linked to a single property though, so when I tried with a note linked to two properties and it wrapped to 3 lines when it didn’t need to, it jumped out at me.
I noticed this Wordwrap was de-selected in the properties. If I check the box on it then asks for a width. Maybe that is the way to do it. Whenever I stretch the box boundary manually, it just reverts back to accommodate the text within it.
Gosh I forgot how I linked the property to begin with but its giving me a hint when I hover.
I don’t recall it ever not working.
LOL maybe I am misremembering altogether then…
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