Creating a Label Style

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Creating a Label Style

In this exercise, you will create a new label style to enable the use of description keys without having to assign additional labels to points.

  1. On the Labels menu, click Edit Label Styles to display the Edit Label Styles dialog box.

  2. Click the Point Label Styles tab, and from the Name list, select active desckeys only (by selecting this style, the Text section of the dialog box is cleared). Verify that the Text section of the dialog box is blank.

  3. Enter DescKey Only - Crew-B for the Name.

  4. In the Description Keys section, verify that the DescKey Matching On check box is selected, and then from the DescKey file list, select CREW-B.

  5. Verify that the Substitute DescKey Description and Insert DescKey Symbol check boxes are selected.

  6. Click Save, and then click OK.