Options Menu

This section describes these options on the Options menu:

  • Create Label
  • Layer Properties
  • Save As...
  • Save a Copy As...
  • Zoom to Bounds

Note: For information about Remove Layer, see the section above: Removing Layers from the Legend and Deleting Layers.

See Related Documents for information about these options:

  • Create New Filter: Create Custom Search Filters
  • Edit Style: Thematic Mapper
  • Extract: Extract Layer to Shapefile

Create Label

The Create Label option creates a label layer. A label layer displays a label for every feature on the map associated with a selected field in your database.

Tip: It is the best practice to review the values of the fields in your database before creating a label layer.

  1. Click the Options icon on the layer you’d like to label. The Options menu appears.

  2. Click Create Label on the menu.

  3. Select a Field in your database from the drop-down list that contains the values you’d like to appear as labels. In the example to the right, the values of the Neighborhood field are the names of neighborhoods.

  4. Click the OK button. The map displays the labels, and the Legend displays the label layer with the name of your selected Field. In the example label layer to the right, the field is Neighborhood.

    Tip: It is the best practice to keep a label layer and its corresponding data layer together in the Legend.

  5. To edit the style of the labels on the map, such as changing the fill or line color, select Edit Style from the Options menu.

Layer Properties