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.
You can also use text markers as criteria for selecting topics and filtering the map.
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 using the
Map
Markers task pane, select the target topic(s), and then click
the marker.
You can also right-click a topic, then click Text
Markers to add or remove markers from the topic.
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).
You can copy or move text markers from one topic to another.
Hold CTRL as you drag to move, instead of copy, the text marker.
If you drag a text marker to a topic that already has text markers assigned, the new text marker will be added to the list. |
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To remove all text markers, right-click the topic, and then click Remove All Text Markers.
To remove a specific marker, right-click on the marker's text and then click Remove.
Right-click the topic and enable or disable markers from the shortcut menu.
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.
