HOW TO
Note: This article applies to retired ArcGIS versions 8.x. Later versions of ArcGIS may contain different functionality, as well as different names and locations for menus, commands and geoprocessing tools.
You can create a label with a leader line, based on a field in a layer's attribute table, by altering the default settings of the label tool.
Please note this functionality did not work properly up through version 8.2 and has been fixed in version 8.3.
This example adds a new text element to the current annotation target. For the following steps to work, you must be in data view, or in layout view with a data frame that is activated in place. It will also be helpful to check the display units your data frame is using as that will be the basis for setting the tolerance for the leader line in step 11.
Note: The initial point where the label is placed will be the anchor point.
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