Homework

• Hands-on Exercises from Textbook
  • Ormsby Exercise 7a: Using Dynamic Labels
    • Step 10. The Draw toolbar is at the bottom. If it is not displaying, right-click in a blank part of the tools area and check the Draw toolbar back on. Other toolbars are also available this way.
    • Step 13. If you only had to change font size, it would be easier to do it right down in the Draw toolbar.
    • Show Step 16 map (bottom of p. 186)

  • Ormsby Exercise 7b: Setting Rules for Placing Labels
    • Show Step 16 map (top of p. 196)

  • Ormsby Exercise 7c: Using Interactive Labels and Creating Annotation
    • Show Step 12 map (p. 203).

• Be prepared to answer the following questions from Ormsby, Chapter 7 (Labeling Features):

  CHAPTER 7:LABELING FEATURES
  1. What is dynamic labeling? Interactive labeling? Text? P. 178
  2. How do you do dynamic labeling? P. 179
  3. How can you specify font, size, color, bold, italic, and underline? 
  Pp. 180-181
  4. How can you add text labels? Pp. 182-183
  5. How can you modify text labels? Pp. 184
  6. How do you move text or labels? P. 185
  7. How do you set which attribute field is used for the labels? P. 186
  8. How can you set the placement of labels vis-a-vis their respective 
  features? Pp. 187-189
  9. How can you set label priorities when you are labeling more than 
  one layer? What are priorities? p. 192
  10. How do you set labels to display only if you are zoomed in 
  enough? Pp. 196-197
  11. Why convert labels to annotations? P. 198
  12. What does the Label tool do? P. 199
  13. How do you convert labels to annotations? P. 201-202
  
  

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