adding labels to a layer
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Adding labels to
a layer
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Right click on the map layer & choose labels (could set symbology first)
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Choose field for the labels, font, colour etc. and apply...
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If adding your own shapefile, ensure that you add a field, which could be called LABEL, to add an appropriate text label to the polygons / points /
lines that you are creating...This can then be selected as before to display the label values that you have
entered….