Utilizing Placement Properties for Labels

Problem: Your label for your shapefile is on top of your data. There are two ways to correct this, Placement Properties or Maplex Label Engine. This blog post will discuss Placement Properties. I will discuss Maplex Label Engine in a later post.

Solution: 

1. In the Layer Properties dialog box, navigate to the Labels tab. 

2. Click on Placement Properties 

3. Change Label Weight and Feature Weight to both Medium. 

4. Click OK and OK and your label should now be off to the side of the data.