Using ArcGIS Desktop

For additional editing options, or to create new annotation, open the Annotation toolbar from the Editor drop-down list.
Point to More Editing Tools, and click Annotation.

Open the Annotation toolbar by

clicking More Editing Tools, then
Annotation on the Editor drop-down
list.

When you select annotation using the Edit Annotation tool on the Annotation toolbar, a blue box (known as the
bounding box) appears around the annotation. The box provides several options for interactively editing the annotation.
Click and drag the lower left or lower right corner of the box to rotate the annotation (the annotation pivots around the

opposite corner).

The bounding box around the

annotation lets you rotate the
textclick either small arc that
appears in the lower left and
right corners and drag to rotate
the box. When you release the
mouse button the text is rotated.

Edit Annotation tool

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Click the red triangle at the top of the box and drag the cursor up or down to interactively increase or decrease the text
size. Click the crosshair in the center of the box and drag the cursor to move the text.

When you select the red

triangle in the box, the cursor
changes to a vertical line with
arrowheads. Drag the cursor up
to increase the text size; drag it
down to decrease the text size.

Right-click to display more options, including changing the curvature of the annotationyou can change it from
straight (that is, straight-line at any angle) to horizontal or curved, for example.

Right-click selected annotation

to display a context menu
with additional options. The
Curvature setting lets you
change the annotation type.

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