Comments on: Multi-line text in legends

By: Lenore Raspotnik

Lenore Raspotnik — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:38:32 +0000

As a Newbie, I am permanently browsing online for articles that can be of assistance to me. Thank you

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:15:26 +0000

Instead of doing a definition query for each legend item, you can go into
-> Layer Properties -> Categories -> Unique Values.
Right click on the label you want to add a description to and select edit description.

Then you’ll have to go to Legend Properties -> Right Click on the Legend item with the description then check the description box. and uncheck the the label box.

The one draw back is that you’ll have to enter a description for each label that you don’t have a multi-line for.

By: e.

e. — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:28:17 +0000

I believe you can create line breaks in the Description box by pressing enter while holding down shift (or maybe it’s control…).

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Note for step 5. You can enter line breaks using Ctrl-Enter.

Keep up the great blog!

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:14:38 +0000

This is an all-too-common problem and you’ve done a nice job of explaining how to fix this in ArcMap. Thanks!