In Microsoft Office Visio 2003, when you open and view a CAD drawing (.dwg file) that contains multiline text (Mtext), the line spacing of the Mtext object is not retained. For example, if the Mtext object is formatted to use double-spaced lines, it appears incorrectly as single-spaced lines when you view the CAD drawing in Visio.

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This problem occurs because line spacing formatting of AUTOCAD Mtext objects is not supported in Visio 2003 when you open and display a CAD drawing.

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To work around this problem, convert the CAD drawing to Visio format (.vsd file). When you do so, the text appears with the correct line-spacing. To convert a CAD drawing to Visio format, follow these steps:

1.	Start Visio 2003 and open the CAD drawing that you want to convert.
2.	Right-click the CAD drawing, point to CAD Drawing Object, and then click Convert.
3.	In the Convert CAD Object dialog box, click to select the check boxes next to the layers that contain the CAD objects that you want to convert, and then click OK.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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For additional information about how to troubleshoot other Mtext display issues in Visio 2003, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about how to work with CAD drawings in Visio 2003, see Visio Help. To do so, on the Help menu, click Microsoft Office Visio Help, type CAD drawings in the Search for box, and then press ENTER to view the topics returned.

For more information about Visio 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

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