Creating horizontal annotation

1. Click an annotation feature template in the Create Features window.
2. Click the Horizontal construction tool on the Create Features window.

Tip:

The default construction tool becomes active as soon as you click a feature template on the Create Features window. You can change the default construction tool by double-clicking a feature template in the Create Features window and updating the Default Tool property.

3. Type the text of the new annotation feature into the text box on the Annotation Construction window.

   If you want the text string to come from an attribute of an existing feature on the map, click Find Text and click the feature, or press CTRL+W over a feature. Find Text populates the text box with a string based on the label expression of the layer containing the topmost visible feature. With feature-linked annotation, the text is derived only from a feature in the origin feature class. If there are multiple features underneath the pointer location, press the N key to cycle through the possible text strings. If no suitable feature is found, the string reverts to the word Text.

4. Use the Annotation Construction window to change the formatting of the text, such as the font, size, and symbol. Click Toggle Formatting Options to show additional settings. You can also enter text formatting tags with the text string, allowing you to change the appearance of just a part of the text.
5. Click where you want to place the annotation on the map.

   Horizontal annotation is created.