A text marker is a brief notation that gives information by displaying the text below the topic. Each topic can have more than one text marker, but you may not repeat the same text marker more than once on a single topic. You add or remove text markers on topics using the Text Marker command or from the Map Markers pane.
Every map begins with a built-in Map Markers List: a set of available markers and their pre-defined meanings The markers are stored in groups in the Map Markers list (to see it open the Map Markers Task Pane). When you add a text marker to a topic you can select a marker from this list or create a new Text marker.
You can choose a different pre-defined list of markers to use with the map in the Template Organizer's Map Marker Lists pane, or you can modify the Map Markers list to assign different meanings, add or remove markers, and create new marker groups.
Select a topic or topics.
On the Home tab, in the Map Markers group, click Text Markers.
In the text marker picker click the group and then the marker(s) you want to assign to the topic.
Some markers are mutually exclusive: Only one text marker from that group can be added to a topic. If you attempt to add a second marker from the same group, it replaces the first marker. You can change this attribute.
If you are assigning a marker to multiple topics if the marker you choose was already assigned to any of the selected topics, it is removed. This works as a toggle, so a second click on the markers will add it to all selected topics.
If you don't see the marker you want to use, you can add a new text marker or a new marker group.
To add or remove a marker from the Map Markers task pane, select the target topic(s), and then click the marker.
To show or hide the group names in the text markers on your map, on the View tab, in the Detail group, click Show / Hide and select or clear the Text Marker Group Names checkbox .
Right-click the marker, click the marker group name, and then select the markers you want to display.
You can only select one marker from a group that is mutually exclusive (see above)
You can display text markers from more than one group on a topic, as well as other types of markers (icons, fill, font, and highlight).
Right-click on the topic's text marker and then click the marker group. Clear the markers you don't want displayed. Or click Remove All Text Markers to remove all the topic's text markers.
If you prefer not to display text markers but want to avoid removing them you can hide them using the Show / Hide command in Map View. Text Markers are not displayed in Outline View.
Exporting text markers - notes ▼
Text markers are exported to Web pages, to PDF files (map images and outlines) and Word documents. They are not exported to PowerPoint slides, Outlook, or Project and are not included when you print from outline view or save as a plain text or HTML outline.
For Web export you can choose whether to display text markers and change the section label that's used by customizing the Advanced Settings.
For Word export you can choose whether to include the text markers in your document in the General map Properties tab.