Showing & Hiding Labels
Choose which text appears under each person (name, age, gender, orientation and more), change the text size, make it bold, and put years above the symbol.
The text under each symbol is controlled by one menu: Text Labels, the tag button in the View group of the main toolbar. Its badge shows how many labels are on.
Turn a label on or off
- Click Text Labels to open the Display Labels menu.
- Tick or untick a label: Name, Birthyear, Age, Gender, Orientation, Heritage, Religion, Class, Occupation, School, Education, Location, Birth place, Medical, Death, Custom and Notes.
Each setting applies to everyone in the genogram. Hiding a label never deletes the information; it stays on the person and comes back when you tick it again.
Common fixes
- Remove "Male" / "Female" under symbols: untick Gender (it is off by default). The square or circle already shows it.
- Remove sexual orientation text (for example "Gay"): untick Orientation.
- Show only names: untick everything except Name.
- Hide cause of death: untick Death. It is on by default, so a cause of death you record shows under the person until you turn it off.
- Age inside or below the symbol: when Age is on, click its arrow and choose Inside, Below or Hide Age.
How labels look
- Text size — S, M, L or XL resizes every name and label on the board.
- Bold text — makes all labels bold.
- Wrap long text — wraps long values onto several lines instead of running across lines and neighbors.
- Years above symbol — moves birth and death years above the symbol instead of below.
Cluttered chart?
Turn off labels you don't need, switch on Wrap long text, then run Auto-Arrange with More spacing so text stops overlapping the lines.
Text styling applies to the whole board. Per-person font styling exists only in Freeform documents. To make one person's symbol bigger, see Making a Person Bigger.