Maplex Label Engine Abbreviation

[MikkoHämäläinen]

Hello!

I need to use abbreviation about street names which are compound words like "Niittytie", "Kutomopolku" and "Kuusikuja". How to use when I have about 1000 diffrent names which need to shorten?

Niittytie has ending "tie" -> Niittyt.

Kutomopolku has ending "polku" -> Kutomopl.

Kuusikuja has ending "kuja" -> Kuusikj.

I have read about abbreviation and truncating words but its not help me alot

About abbreviating and truncating words—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 

Please help, thanks! 

[WendyHarrison]

Hi Mikko,

the steps you need are as follows:

create the new abbreviation dictionary - http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/working-with-text/abbreviation-dictionary-creating-new....

enter your abbreviations - http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/working-with-text/abbreviation-dictionary-adding-words....

and then apply it to the layer you're labeling - http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/working-with-text/abbreviation-dictionary-using.htm

do you by any chance have the street names and their abbreviations in a spreadsheet?  if so you can just import it and save some time typing - http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/map/working-with-text/abbreviation-dictionary-loading.htm

thanks

Wendy