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- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 08_UsingText.dwg file. And in the previous video, we looked at setting up our text style. So what we need to look at now is a layer to put our text on. Now quite often, I would use a color that would be the same color as my dimensions here. So you notice we've got some dimensions there already. So you can that we're on A-ANNO-DIMS as a layer. So what I would probably do is put my text on a same color layer as that. So let's go to the layer panel first. And just go to our layer properties here. And we need to find that A-ANNO-DIMS layer. So scroll up. It will be up near the top. There it is there, and it's Color 10. Can you see that? A-ANNO-DIMS. Now if I come down, is there any text layers that we can use already? Let's have a look and see. And you see there, we've got a structural text one, just there, but we haven't just got a regular text layer. So it's a good idea, just to click on the new layer command there, and just set up text as a layer like…

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