Configuring options for the Letters or Numbers style (Maritime Charting)

Parameters on the Options tab on the Annotation Properties window control the settings for the Letters and Numbers styles only.

• Use capital letters—Used only with the Letters style, this indicates that the letters should be created in uppercase.
• User lower case letters—Used only with the Letters style, this indicates that the letters should be created in lowercase.
• Start Value—The number or letter that starts the sequence.
• Interval—A number that sets the interval for the sequence of letters or numbers. Negative values are allowed.
• Exclusion List—Specific letters or numbers can be entered, indicating that those characters or character strings should be skipped when the sequence is created.

Steps:

1. Start ArcMap.
2. Click the Grids and Graticules Designer window button on the Production Cartography toolbar.
3. Create or load a grid that has annotation.
4. Expand nodes in the Grid tree view until you find an annotation node.
5. Double-click the annotation node.

   The Annotation Properties window appears.

6. Click the Options tab.

   The Options tab appears.
7. Choose Use capital letters or Use lower case letters.
8. Type a starting value in the Start Value text box.
9. Type the interval you want to use for the pattern of letters or numbers in the Interval text box.
10. Type any values to be excluded in the Exclusion List text box.