I've been asked to inventory culverts in my work region which means a lot of survey points. I've been trying to label all these points into a user friendly map to show to my municipality representatives. Here's what I've gotten so far (see attached) , but my labels are still to "ugly" some of them have been placed so that the leaders overlap other leaders and other various issues. Can I manually tweak the position of labels? Any tips or advice would be much appreciated.
Johnathan, were you able to find success with this?
Thanks, I'll give this a try and see how it goes.
Yes, you can convert your labels to annotation, then you have the freedom to do whatever you want with them:
Converting labels to annotation—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
here's a more zoomed in screen shot, The quality isn't great but basically the issue I'm left with now (using Maplex) is my leaders crossing over each other. Is there a way to select that specific label and move it manually? MidnightYell2003
Jonathan,
It's hard to see your screenshot. Can you make it bigger?
Either way, have you enabled the Maplex Label Engine?
Exercise 1: Enabling the Maplex Label Engine and adding the Labeling toolbar—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
Maplex has many options of manipulating labels to help make them look nicer.
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