Learning ArcGIS Pro

Step 3 – labeling
Now the Director wants you to label the pipe sizes for the sewer system, so he can ensure
that there is enough capacity to handle the load the new business may add to the system.
You need to turn on and configure labeling for the sewer line layer:
1. Select the Sewer Lines layer in the Contents pane.
2. Now you need to determine which field contains the size of the sewer pipes. Rightclick
on the Sewer Lines layer and select the Attribute table. This will open the
Attribute table in a pane located below the main map view.
3. Scroll through the available attribute fields to determine which field contains the pipe
size.
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Question: What is the field name or alias that contains the size of the sewer pipes?
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4. Close the Attribute table for the sewer lines.
5. Click on the LABELING tab in the ribbon.
6. Click on the Label button to turn on labels for Sewer Line layer.
7. Set the Field to the one you identified in the question mentioned earlier.
8. At the current full view of the map, it is hard to read the pipe sizes. So, you will set a
scale visibility range for the labels, which will allow them to become visible at a
scale that makes them easier to read. In the drop-down list located next to Out
Beyond on the LABELING tab in the Visibility Range, select 1:10,000. The size
labels should disappear.
9. Zoom in until the size labels appear.
10. To make the pipe size labels stand out a bit more, make them bold and adjust the
color on the LABELING tab in the Text Symbol group tab.
11. The placement of the labels is not optimum, so you need to adjust the placement.
Click on the small arrow with the line above it in the Label Placement group tab.
You should see several placement options listed that were not shown before.
12. Select the Water (Line) placement option.
Step 4 – configuring label conflict and placement options
You have successfully added the pipe size labels to your map. However, there are some
additional configuration options, which might improve how they look and perform. You
will now make some adjustments to those:
1. Right-click on Sewer Lines layer and select Label Properties. This will open the
Label Class pane on the right-hand side of the interface. This pane allows you to
make further adjustments to the labeling configuration settings to refine their
appearance.
2. Click on the Position tab and then select the Conflict Resolution icon, which looks