The Label Style is a powerful tool for displaying information on your map based on the data in your feature layer. Label Styles offer numerous settings to display information on your map.

Name - The name of the label style. Choosing a descriptive name can help you quickly identify styles when you are compositing many of them together.

Label Type - Sets the Label Style to be a basic label (display one column of data) or a custom label (display multiple columns with added text).

Column Name - Selects the column that will be used to display data on the map. If you are using a custom label, you can use the Insert button to place multiple columns of data into the label and add special characters of your choosing.

Font - Sets the font type that you would like to use for your Label Style.

Font Size - Sets the size of the font for the Label Style.

Font Color - Sets the font color to be used for each label. The font color can be a color, gradient, hatch pattern or bitmapped texture.

Font Style - Sets the style of the font for the Label Style to be bold, italicized, strikeout, underline, and/or regular.

Rotation Angle - Sets the rotation angle for the center point of each label style, from 0 to 360 degrees.

X Offset - Sets the X offset of this style. A positive X offset will draw the style that many pixels to the right of the actual feature. A negative X offset will draw the style that many pixels to the left of the actual feature.

Y Offset - Sets the Y offset of this style. A positive Y offset will draw the style that many pixels below the actual feature. A negative Y offset will draw the style that many pixels above the actual feature.

Drawing Level - Forces this style to draw on a specific drawing level. The GIS Editor has a set of internal drawing levels that can be used to set rendering priority for certain styles. For example, labels are set to use the highest drawing level by default, so that they always appear on top of other map features regardless of what layer they're on. This enables you to add styles to any layer without worrying about them being covered up by other layers above them.

Once enabled, the label will have a colored mask to act as a background for each label.

Fill - Sets the fill color of the mask. The fill can be a color, gradient, hatch pattern or bitmapped texture.

Outline - Set the outline color around the mask. The fill can be a color, gradient, hatch pattern or bitmapped texture.

Outline Thickness - Sets the thickness for the outline, in pixels.

Margin - Sets the border spacing between the font and outline of the label mask in pixels.

Overlapping labels - The checkbox toggles whether or not to overlap labels, allowing you to see more or less labels depending on you zoom level and proximity to other labels.

Grid Size - Labels are placed on a set grid, spacing out the labels in set increments. You can decrease the grid size to get a higher density of labels on your map.

Polygon labeling location - Sets how the label will be placed. Bounding box center will place the label in the exact center of the polygon, as if there was a box surrounding the entire polygon. This option may cause some feature labels to be slightly outside of their feature areas. The Centroid option places the label in the area's center of mass and generally prevents labels from being placed outside of their feature area unless it is a particularly small area.

Force horizontal labels - If checked, the label will always display in a horizontal manner rather than following the angle of the line.

Spline Type - Sets how the label will follow the line style. None sets the angle of the line, but does not curve with the line. Standard Spline is default and will follow the angles of the line style. Forced Spline is a more strict spline and is generally more useful for foreign characters such as Chinese, Japaneses, and Korean.

Automatic label placement - If checked, the editor will determine the best position for each point feature's label to be displayed on the map.

Label placement' - Sets the position of where the label for each point feature will begin, such as center right or lower left of the point feature.

Date Format - If you are using a date for your labels, you can set the format of how the date is displayed.

Numeric Format - If you are using numbers, such as currency or percentages, for your labels, you can set the various formats of how those numbers are displayed.

Duplicate Rule - Sets labels to not duplicate, duplicate only once per quadrant of the map, or to duplicate as much as possible. This is useful for setting labels to appear more than once on a single road, for example.

Label each multipolygon - If checked, each polygon in a single feature will have a label on it.

Suppress Partial Labels - If checked, this will hide a label if it cannot be fully displayed on the map.

Repositioning Labels - If checked, any label that is cut off from the edge of your map will try to be repositioned to fit inside the window.

Draw Labels Within Area Boundaries - If checked, a label will only display if its total length fits within your area feature.

Fitting Factor - Sets a leeway amount if labels are set to be drawn only within an area feature's boundary.

Segment Ratio - Similar to the Fitting Factor for Area Features, by setting this to a lower value, it hides labels that are longer than the line feature.

Icon Image Path - This is where you put your path of the image that you wish to use for your icon.

Icon image Scale - Sets the scale of the image icon. A scale of one draws the icon at its original size.

Remove Icon - If you no longer want to have an icon for your label, you can use this button to remove it.