Latest Contributions by WendyHarrison

ArcGIS Desktop is in  mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application. See  Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas.  We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

Here is a link to the styles documentation.  As Kory said, it's a good way to store your favorite fonts. ... View more

@wayfaringrob  at the moment the tool pulls the text from the topmost layer's first label class.  this is the same as it worked in ArcMap.  the rest is additional information on the different settings for the tool. the link to the documentation is fixed. Presently this request has 1 kudo.  I'll keep an eye on it to see if more users are requesting it.   ... View more

The Auto Text tool pulls the text from the topmost layer's first label class.  This may explain your results. You can choose to use the positioning from the layer or to place where you click. You can also use the symbol set in the label class or use the default text symbol. Right click using the Auto text tool to get to the context menu   ... View more

ArcGIS Pro has the addition of the Align tag <ALIGN></ALIGN> ... View more

This is possible with the Label tool in ArcGIS Desktop.  Please see the documentation below Adding text associated with a single feature with the text string derived from a feature attribute ... View more

ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026 so we won’t be considering this idea. We recommend that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro, our fully supported desktop GIS application. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information. Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas.  We truly appreciate your contributions to continuously improving the software to help you do your work and look forward to what ideas you have for ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

The Label tool that you show in the image does not label the map.  It creates map annotation that is stored in the map. To remove text from your map your options are to create a sql query in the label class or to convert the labels to annotation (or map annotation) and then delete the text elements that you don't need. ... View more

See below for your requests:    Leader control - the ability to select the callout and move the box to adjust the leader This requires the labels to be converted to annotation.  Once converted you can select the annotation and move it to adjust the leader  Point control - the ability to move the start point of the callout Presently you can set the anchor point for callouts on a polygon layer.  Are you looking for similar functionality with line layers?  If so we have this idea that you can add your kudos to   ... View more

There are no plans to deploy this font with the software. ... View more

We've improved this workflow in ArcGIS Pro. You can create a style item that has your smaller size halo and easily pick it from the gallery every time you need it. We've also decreased the number of clicks needed when setting up your text symbol.  See the video - only needed to click Apply once!     ... View more