Annotation disappearing at scale

AvaFarouche

Hi!

I've been working with editing an annotation layer, which has been "fine" so far - but all of a sudden it started disappearing when I zoom out far enough to see my map in context, which is about 1:95,607, so not very far. I have no limits set on In Beyond or Out Beyond, either in the layer properties pop up box, or in the Annotation Layer in the ribbon at the top. I've been zooming in and out to this extent, and farther, all morning trying labeling this map and it was fine - and then all of a sudden it wasn't, and I didn't change anything.

The annotation still appears when I look at it on Layout, but not on the Map, which is where I need to see it in order to edit it.

I have many other complaints about annotation in Pro and I want to ask for advice on that in another post, but for now, if anyone has any suggestions, I would GREATLY appreciate it. Of course I need to finish this map within a couple of hours.

Thank you!!!

 

AdrianWelsh

Ava, this is pretty annoying. I have not seen annotations randomly disappear like that but sometimes these things are a mystery. A couple of things to check or work on.

You can edit the annotation, and everything else, in the layout view. You have to go to the Layout ribbon and click on Activate. This makes it act like a map. So, this could be a viable solution for this weird issue:

 

You can also potentially edit your annotation without seeing it. Select the annotation you want to edit, in the Map go to the Edit ribbon and then click on Attributes. This will allow you to edit it in the Attributes editing pane:

One more idea is to just make a copy of the dataset (like a temporary one) and see if the zooming out thing still happens to it. In any case, I hope one of the above solutions to help with getting you what you need for the short turnaround.