Question about Map Book Series scale bar

Question

I am making a Map Book series for my city's public parks, using the bookmark function.  My supervisor wants every page in the map book to have the same bar scale ie every bar scale is 0 to 2 miles (as an example).  Everything I have seen so far is that the while I can make the style of bar scale the same for each page, each page's bar scale is going to be different as I am zoomed in at different levels/scales.

Is there a way to have the exact bar scale for each page in the series?  Or are they going to be different for each one as the zoom/scale is different for each park?

Aubri Otis · Answer

That isn't because it's a map book series, it's because the fitting strategy (the first dropdown) for the scale bar is set to Adjust division value. You need to change it to Adjust width.

Zelong · Answer

Because this is a mab book series this is what i am getting if try that way:

I cannot adjust the division value.

Aubri Otis · Answer

Having the scale bar show the same values on each page is possible. The scale bar length will just change for each page because the zoom level changed, it's the only way for it to be accurate.

To get the same values on each page, right-click the scale bar in the Contents pane and choose Properties to open the Element pane.

On the Properties tab, change the Fitting Strategy to Adjust width, then set the size and frequency of the divisions.

In this example I've created a scale bar that constantly shows 100 miles (2 divisions of 50 miles each). For each page, the length of the scale bar may change but the value will always be 100 miles.

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Page 2

Hopefully that helps.

Cheers,

Aubri