Now that the labels have been created, you will add the Editor and Annotation toolbars, switch to data view in ArcMap, and start an edit session.

Annotation is stored in the geodatabase as features. In order to edit annotation features you need to start an edit session. The Annotation and Editor toolbars both have tools that are useful for editing annotation features./p>

The Unplaced Annotation Window appears when you click the Unplaced Annotation Window button on the Annotation toolbar. You can resize it, dock it to the ArcMap window, or leave it floating.

The Unplaced Annotation Window lets you view unplaced annotation features in a table that can show all of the unplaced annotation in the annotation feature classes on your map. You can filter the table to show annotation for a specific annotation class and choose whether to show annotation for the whole extent of the data or for the current visible extent. You can sort the table alphabetically by the unplaced annotation’s text content or annotation class by clicking the Text or Class column headings.

The Draw check box on the Unplaced Annotation Window lets you view the unplaced annotation features on the map.

In this example, a number of annotation features are listed in the table. If you examine the table you can see that there are unplaced annotation features from several annotation classes represented. You can also see some new annotation features outlined in red on the map. You see these unplaced annotation features because the Draw check box is checked.