Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

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12-29-2022 02:17 PM
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RyanBohan
Occasional Contributor III

Add the ability to a Vertical Center a Rectangle text element in a layout.

Currently the Vertical alignment is disabled (BUG-000121263), it seems the eyeballing the Offset Y is currently the only option to try and Vertically Center text.

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My goal is recreating the following layout.  Having the Vertical alignment would allow a second line to added in seconds, instead of trying to readjust the Offset Y.  Border and background added to Rectangle text element

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2 Comments
wayfaringrob

Thank you for posting. I am astounded that the market leader in desktop GIS does not provide a simple way to align text in a box. It results in a lot of eyeballing in layouts which can look very unprofessional and I often end up using another application to do things properly.

Related: Allow Rectangle Textbox to Grow/Shrink and Vertica... - Esri Community

And this closed idea from 2011 requested the same thing: Layout Text Enhancements - Esri Community

MichaelDavis3

Would also love to see ESRI address this.  We have plenty of use-cases where we need dynamic text in map series to be aligned to the bottom of a text frame.  The fact that we can't do this in Pro in version 3.1 is sort of baffling.