Vertical Center for a Rectangle text element in a layout for a "Title"

RyanBohan

Add the ability to a Vertical Center a Rectangle text element in a layout.

Currently the Vertical alignment is disabled (BUG-000121263), it seems the eyeballing the Offset Y is currently the only option to try and Vertically Center text.

My goal is recreating the following layout. Having the Vertical alignment would allow a second line to added in seconds, instead of trying to readjust the Offset Y. Border and background added to Rectangle text element

wayfaringrob · ‎02-02-2023

Thank you for posting. I am astounded that the market leader in desktop GIS does not provide a simple way to align text in a box. It results in a lot of eyeballing in layouts which can look very unprofessional and I often end up using another application to do things properly.

Related: Allow Rectangle Textbox to Grow/Shrink and Vertica... - Esri Community

And this closed idea from 2011 requested the same thing: Layout Text Enhancements - Esri Community

MichaelDavis3 · ‎07-12-2023

Would also love to see ESRI address this. We have plenty of use-cases where we need dynamic text in map series to be aligned to the bottom of a text frame. The fact that we can't do this in Pro in version 3.1 is sort of baffling.

AlyssavD

Surprising this is still an issue in 2024. Pretty ridiculous that you can't vertically center text in a rectangle. That is a pretty basic design request.