Bold or italic Mtext formatting is not retained when you open and view a CAD drawing in Visio 2003

In Microsoft Office Visio 2003, when you open and view a CAD drawing (.dwg file) that contains either bold or italic multiline text (Mtext), the formatting of the text is not retained. The text does not appear with bold or with italic formatting.

This problem occurs because bold and italic formatting in AUTOCAD Mtext objects is not supported in Visio 2003 when you open and display a CAD drawing that contains this type of formatting.

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

1. Start Visio 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.

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

For additional information about how to troubleshoot other Mtext display issues in Visio, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about working with CAD drawings in Visio, see Visio Help. To do this, 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, visit the following Microsoft Web site: