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[Covasnianu Adrian]

Hi! I'm trying to label from a shapefile. I've set 4 classes in order to specify on different angles.

Is it possible to label on two rows, instead of the classical one row?

For example New York City to be shown like this:

New York
City

I've searched in label styles, but no effect.

How can I do this without being forced to export those features in a annotation?

P.S. I think some VBScript could solve the problem, but I have no idea.

Thanks
Adrian,

[jrat]

[Field1] & vbNewLine &[field2]

in the expressiong builder in the label manager there is a help feature that will clue you in to what you can do with lables using vb or phython scripting.

[DaveB]

If you have Maplex there are options for word-wrapping. If you're using the standard lable engine and the lable is coming from a single field you will have to do some parsing in the lable expression. There are many examples of this in the Esri user fourms, online help, etc.
In this help topic about building label expressions there is an example using 2 fields and another example using a single field.

[Bryan Swindell]

Here's a document that I keep bookmarked - I find myself referring to it all the time:

http://www.esri.com/...cript_label.pdf

[heath b]

A recent post here covered something similar

http://www.cartotalk...?showtopic=7321