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<body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>I just recently discovered the enhanced capabilities to deal with data-defined labeling.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, there are at least three plugins doing similar things, which is confusing me every time.</div><div><br></div><div>I now use "Layer to labeled layer"-plugin, which adds 14 new columns to your layer and also changes the settings in the label properties to watch these columns. This only covers the most important settings, a lot more are available and could be added as a column.</div><div><br></div><div>The nice thing is, that only features with an entry in those columns are handled accordingly, the other features just get labeled by the general settings.</div><div><br></div><div>When e.g. I enter 0 ("zero") in the field "LblSize" of a feature, this features' label is gone. The others having no entry ("NULL") are still displayed with the general label settings size.</div><div>Same applies to the label position. When you have overlapping labels, make the layer editable and activate the "Move label"-button and just drag those overlapping labels to a better position. These coordinates will get stored in "LblX" and "LblY" and are now fixed, while the other labels are still placed automatically.</div><div><br></div><div>So now you have to/may use the field calculator for styling your labels which is quite some work, but for good printing results, this is the way to go.</div><div><br></div><div>To answer your question directly in this context:</div><div>Use "Layer to labeled layer" on your layer, make your selection. Revert your selection and use the field calculator to set LblSize to zero.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Bernd</div><div><br></div><div>Am 03.12.2014, 05:17 Uhr, schrieb Brett Adams <badams@spinifexgeophysics.com.au>:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">H1 Folks,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How do I label only the selected features?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Running 2.6.1</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Brett Adams</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Spinifex Geophysics</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">0438 861 974</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote><br><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>Bernd Vogelgesang<br>Siedlerstraße 2<br>91083 Baiersdorf/Igelsdorf<br>Tel: 09133-825374</div></div></body></html>