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 and 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.
On a topic, right-click the marker you want to find.
Click Find Next or Find Previous to select the next or previous topic that uses this marker.
On a topic, right-click the marker you want to match.
Click Quick Filter, and then click Show topics with this marker or Hide topics with this marker.
Filtering is cumulative. Topics that are already hidden remain hidden when you apply a new filter.
To show all the topics again do one of the following:
Right-click the marker, click Quick filter, and then click Remove Filter.
On the View tab, in the Filter group, click Remove Filter.
On the Status Bar, click Remove Filter 
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Right-click the map's workbook tab, then click Remove Filter.
To use additional criteria for filtering, use the Power Filter option.
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