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It's almost 7 years old. Was introduced in AutoCAD 2015 It's also available (and more likely to be accidentally enabled/disabled) on the context menu.

Didn't know that. Thanks.

New as in not from day one I guess. At my age, automatic transmissions seem new.

I strongly suggest that those with a sincere desire to FIX their AutoCAD spend an hour or two scrolling through the SYSVDLG. I favor clicking with the cursor arrow, as it will briefly open each variable, and will likely teach you a lot, on the fly. One size does not fit all, any more than a DEFAULT variable setting delivers optimal performance for everybody. If that were the case, there wouldn't be any other options, nor need for them. Next time you find yourself bored, with nothing on your plate, waiting for the next "Hot Potato", which was promised for yesterday to materialize on your desktop invest a little of that inevitable downtime making your life and software work better for you. Work SMARTER not harder, the time and frustration you save will be your own. It is a good idea to take notes of those variable settings which you have changed, in case you later discover that maybe you made a mistake. Better yet, use the SAVE ALL button at the bottom of the dialog to make sure you have saved a .svf (system variable file) which will contain all of the current settings on your machine, and put it someplace safe where you can find it, when you need it later. If you are running pure Autocad Default settings, and want to restore them, choose the READ button at the bottom of the dialog to restore ALL default variable settings. Once you have started customizing and personalizing your variable settings that .svf file becomes really important. It enables you to share with your team, or apply your settings onto another machine. Should you be borrowing/hijacking a friend or coworker's station, be sure to do a SAVE ALL of their settings before overwriting them with your own, so that you can restore them when you are through on their desktop.

Unless you hold the CTRL key while dragging.

That is a new function sometime in the last couple of releases I presume. TEXTALLCAPS = 0 (OFF) is normal windows keyboard behavior. TEXTALLCAPS = 1 (ON) is all caps all the time in AutoCad. The shift key flips either setting of TEXTALLCAPS the other way, just like in windows. The keyboard caps lock does not reverse TEXTALLCAPS = 1 (ON) TEXTALLCAPS doesn't work in block attributes or any pallet or dialog like FIND, properties, or block parameters. Basically it only works in TEXT, MTEXT, MLEADERS (without any block attached) and dimensions, also dimension overrides as long as you double click edit the dimension on screen rather than put it in the properties dialog. TEXTALLCAPS does not retro-fix anything. To fix existing text you have to select and text edit to upper case or vice-versa like always.

Agree with @CyberAngel - spend the time to create the layout(s) you need one time, in your template drawing. Even if you end up working on drawings created by someone else, you can import the layout into that drawing for use.

If you have a finite number of sheet sizes/layouts, you can add them to your template. It's a lot easier to delete a layout than to create a new one. Ideally, you should only have to define a page setup once. When you copy a layout, the page setup goes along with it.

I thought that zip files remained unaltered whether the contents have been extracted or not, so how do you decide what needs to be deleted?

That`s a great idea @pkenewell, thank you a lot for your help.