The Unplaced Annotation window lets you manage the process of placing or deleting the unplaced annotation. You’ll use the Edit Annotation tool on the Annotation toolbar to edit the annotation feature after you place it.

A number of annotation features could not be placed. Several of these were labels of features that were only partly within the visible map extent. These would probably have been placed if you had converted all of the labels to annotation, instead of just those in the visible extent.

You can use the Unplaced Annotation dialog box to search for and place unplaced annotation. You can also use it to pan or zoom to an unplaced annotation feature’s location or to delete unplaced annotation features.

You can use the Edit Annotation tool to select and move or resize annotation features.

When you place the pointer on the middle of the annotation feature, you see the Move pointer. Clicking the middle of the annotation feature and dragging it with this pointer allows you to move the annotation feature.

If you click and drag one of the blue Rotate handles on the lower right and left corners of the annotation feature, you can pivot the feature around the other Rotate handle. The red handle is the Resize handle. You’ll use it to make the annotation feature smaller. The pointer becomes the Resize pointer when it is over the Resize handle. Dragging toward the center of the annotation feature makes it smaller. Dragging away from the center makes it larger.