How do I change the color of the font in an annotation class and apply the change?

Question

I would like to change the color of the font in an annotation class. I think that I am on the right track, but thus far, I am unable to complete the task. Here are the steps I have taken:

* Right clicked on the annotation feature in the Catalogue pane
* Clicked "Annotation Feature Class Properties
* Clicked the "Annotation Classes" tab at the top
* Clicked "Edit this annotation class" (the pencil icon) next to the annotation class that I want to change the font color in
* Clicked the Symbol tab
* Changed the font color
* Clicked Apply

This is the point where I might be doing something wrong. I get the following message at this stage:

I went ahead and clicked "Yes", but the font color remains unchanged.

This makes no sense to me at all. If there is anyone that can tell me how to just change the font color of my annotation class and apply the change, then I will be internally grateful!

Carrie2025 · Answer

Ik vond deze thread terwijl ik probeerde de kleur te veranderen in een annotatielaag met ongeveer 7000 labels. En ik kwam een oplossing tegen - het is niet optimaal, maar het werkt wel.

Wat je wilt doen is alle annotaties selecteren die je wilt veranderen. Open dan "attributes" vanuit de selectie werkbalk. Selecteer de laagnaam, en verander vervolgens de letterkleur. Het zal voor alles wat geselecteerd is veranderen. Ik deed het alleen met kleur, maar ik neem aan dat het ook met alle andere aanpasbare opties werkt.

KarenShaw · Answer

@JesseWickizer  OR Any other person who knows the answer:

As of Today, is there a "Faster" or "Quicker" way to change to color of a Single Annotation in an Annotation Class?  This answer has  a lot steps to go through JUST to CHANGE color on ONE piece of text. This SymbolID method seems a lot work for a color change on Single text output.

Why didn't Esri make Color field in the Annotation Table? Than it would been simple, type in wanted Hex code and Ta-Da! The Color changes!

Does anyone know of better, or quicker way to apply Color change to jut ONE Annotation?

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Jesse Wickizer · Answer

You were on the right track, but as the warning message stated, "Features will continue to reference the old symbol until they are edited to reference another symbol."

So now that you've created a new symbol, you need to update the attributes of the existing annotation to reference the new symbol. Note the id number of the new annotation symbol in the symbol collection you created in the database.

Then update the Symbol ID attribute of the annotation features to the new Symbol ID.

Another way to draw annotation with a different text symbol without editing the geodatabase is to use symbol substitution. With symbol substitution you can substitute just the text color, or substitute individual annotation symbols with completely different symbols.

Right-click the annotation layer in the Contents pane and select Symbology open the Symbology tab to configure Symbol Substitution.