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My drawings are unique solutions so reusing text is very unlikely, but I would like some automation. I dislike using VW's database (overhead time\setup hassle\fragility) but if that's the only way then needs must, but I use the worksheet system very often and trust it. Using 2012. Have found VW loses focus during typing so have a file called labels and type a list of labels (normally using Sublime Text), each separated by an empty line, and then paste them in to empty text blocks on the sheet. Really hoped for a way to push text to a text block or have a text block pull text from either an in-drawing worksheet or a text file outside of VW, but expect to at least have to copy my labels list into a worksheet. Have considered using numbered single-cell worksheets each calling from a worksheet list but that seems cumbersome and a bit of a tracking nightmare. - Don't need to auto-number labels or anything fancy like that. - Normally have less than 20 labels per sheet. - Do want the labels to be able to be annotations in a viewport. - Like text objects as they are editable. - Don't need a perfect solution, and still expect to do a few manual labels. Asking here first as have wasted a lot of time in VW over the years trying to get some things to work that IMO should have been more straightforward. Found this script-to-link-text-to-record - don't have 2013 to be able to save that back but if I go that route will only have one block of text per symbol. Also looking at is-there-something-like-dynamic-blocks-in-VW? which is much like solution above - seems very convoluted, unbelievable this is a standard approach.