Modifying Annotations

Change properties for annotations using either custom selection, where you click a few annotations from a particular group or multiple groups, or using bulk selection, where you select all of the annotations, all of the annotations in a group or multiple groups. Bulk selection is depicted below. With bulk select, annotations that fall outside of the current map view are also selected.

Once selected, actions such as cutting and pasting, and modified display properties are applied to all selected annotations. These operations can be undone and also reapplied using the Undo () and Redo () buttons that appear in the top-left of the application window.

Display properties for annotations added to User Layers can also be changed. Because User Layers, unlike other map layers, aren't dependent on any map, but are available to all maps, display changes to User Layers are replicated across all maps in which that user layer is displayed. For details, see Related Topics below.

Annotations are differentiated by type (point, line, region) so that the order in which they're drawn can be first regions and circles, lines, text, and then points. In this way, filled regions don't obscure lines and lines don't obscure points. To change this order, see Related Topics below.

To modify annotations

Using the Ribbon toolbar with the Annotations tab displayed and the annotations displayed on the map, click Select ().

If working with annotations on a User Layer, that layer must be both selected in the Layer Legend (so that its annotations are visible), and displayed as the current layer in the Layer drop-down list in the Annotation ribbon toolbar (so that its annotations are selectable). Below, a User Layer is being selected from the Layer drop-down list.

Select either individual annotations or annotations by group as follows:

To select individual annotations of the same or differing types, but not all the annotations of a group - click the annotation(s) to modify. Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click to select multiple annotations. Ctrl+Click a selected annotation to remove it from the selection.
Using the drop-down list that appears below the Select () option, choose either All Annotations, or one or more annotation groups. This option also selects annotations that fall outside of the current map view.

The selected annotations show node selection handles to confirm they're selected. Below, a triangle and a circle show node selection handles.

Using the Ribbon toolbar, click Annotations, and with the desired annotation(s) selected, click Properties ().

The Annotation Properties dialog box appears. The panes displayed in the Annotation Properties dialog box depend on the annotation types selected on the map. For example, if both a point annotation and a line annotation are selected, the Line Style, Arrow Style, and the Point Style panes appear in the Annotation Properties dialog box.

Using the desired panes (Circle Properties, Fill Style, Line Style, etc.) to affect a given annotation, select the display properties, and then click Apply.

Following are some of the settings for different types of annotations that may not be obvious:
Circle Properties - the radius displayed in the Radius box automatically converts if the kilometers or miles radio button is selected. The size of the circle on the map doesn't change.
Fill Style: Color - if changing a group of layers, the color type is labelled as Mixed. Click the drop-down list and select either the Palette or Named tab and click the desired color. To change the opacity, click , and then drag the slider as depicted.

The above functionality is also available for Line Style and Point Style panes. Denser hachures obscure items that appear on a layer that is rendered on the map before the annotation layer. See Related Topics below to set the draw order so that a layer that contains items that are obscured by an annotation layer are drawn after the annotation layer.
Point Style - click Well Symbol Legend for a legend of well symbols.