idea Layout Text Enhancements in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Layout Text Enhancements

JurajKrumpolec — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:04:32 GMT

Layout text editing needs serious upgrade to meet professional standards.

Editing

Direct WYSIWYG text editing in the Layout
Special characters and symbols (non-breaking space, non-breaking hyphen...)
Active hyperlinks in the text body
Clear indication of text box overflow
Dynamic text drop-down list (choose from most used presets)

Formatting

Tab and Paragraph formatting – indents and spacing (show formatting marks)
Partial text formatting – interactive paragraph and character formatting (no formatting tags)
Vertical alignment of the text in the text frame
Bulleted and numbered lists
Possibility to set different column's width (draw column margins), insert column breaks

Management

Threading text frame – link text elements and allow text to flow
Direct conversion between various types of text elements (e.g. line text to text frame)
Paste text from Word as text element with formatting – not EMF picture

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Re: Layout Text Enhancements

ChrisJacob — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:13:39 GMT

Many of these things would be nice.

I'd be happy, though, with just allowing the use of the TAB character to easily format text into nicely-aligned columns when using variable-width fonts.

Tabs would be great - whether the actual ascii character (ideal), or a formatting tag (as used for bolding text), or...

I've been lamenting teh lack of this for many years.

Thanks,

Chris J.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Re: Layout Text Enhancements

JurajKrumpolec — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:20:29 GMT

Allow text input to existing graphics - by converting it to text frame (like in MS Office).

Re: Layout Text Enhancements

JamiePetersen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:55:05 GMT

I would also like to see some of these text enhancements. Vertical stacked text would be great. Also, the ability to use vbscript within text graphics in the layout similar to how you can with labels - I find myself wishing that I could parse dynamic text (data driven page tags), say using a Replace, Proper Case, or other vscript functions.

Re: Layout Text Enhancements

DanMcCoy — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:09:20 GMT

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Re: Layout Text Enhancements

DavidWatkins — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:16:15 GMT

WYSIWYG text editing in the Layout is in ArcGIS Pro 1.3.

Re: Layout Text Enhancements

ThomasHoman — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 23:39:42 GMT

A very basic need that is missing from the text element is the basic Frame Tab to allow the same interactions that other layout elements have.

Tom

Re: Layout Text Enhancements

MPC_KineticGIS_Department — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 06:20:20 GMT

Struggling to see why vertical text alignment to the object with the text in it STILL isn't in 2.4!!!

Horizontal alignment is there but vertical still isn't.

Re: Layout Text Enhancements - Status changed to: Closed

AubriOtis — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:46:23 GMT

There are a lot of things in the idea, and most of them are implemented in ArcGIS Pro. This thread was started about ArcMap hasn't been active for awhile so I'm going to close it out. I recommend creating new ideas or voting on other ideas if something is still problematic.