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Labeling Interactively
Although you will probably do most of your labeling automatically, you will need interactive labeling to
edit and create individual labels.
Editing Labels
It is very easy to edit individual labels, either those you have displayed automatically or those you have
created interactively with the Label tool. Using the Select tool, double-click the label. The Label Style
dialog box displays. The changes you make in Label Style dialog box apply only to the selected label.
Changes you want to apply to all the labels must be done through Label Display tab and Labeling Rules
tab in the Layer Properties dialog box (choose Map > Layer Control and double-click on a layer in the
list).
The Label Style dialog box allows you to make changes to the text, position, and angle of the labels.
You can also make changes to callouts, add, or delete them.
To change the label content, simply type the new label text into the Text box. The other controls in this
dialog box work the same way as in the Layer Properties dialog box.
Moving a selected label is the same as moving other objects; simply drag them with the mouse. If you
move a label that has a callout, the line will reappear automatically after you move the label.
You can also rotate the label manually about its anchor point. When you select the label, use the rotation
edit handle that appears to the lower right of the label.
• For more information, see Moving Labels You Created Manually in the Help System.
Using Text Objects as Labels
While labels in MapInfo Professional are attributes of the map layer, text objects look like labels but
behave like other annotations you draw on the map. You must make one of your layers editable before
you can create Text objects. You can make the Cosmetic layer editable, create text objects in the
Cosmetic layer, and then later save those text objects to a permanent table if you need to.
The Labeler tool in the MapInfo Professional Tool Manager helps you use text objects to perform several
common labeling tasks:
• Convert labels into text objects, so that they can be saved in a permanent table.
• Create labels for only the currently-selected objects.
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