idea Include callout text for graphics layer in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Include callout text for graphics layer

AdminNorskog — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:05:24 GMT

Please include the possibility to add Callout text w. yellow balloon colour and leader as a choice when adding text to graphics

Re: Include callout text for graphics layer

JesseWickizer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:55:02 GMT

There is a pre-defined yellow balloon callout style that comes installed with ArcGIS Pro that's accessible from the Graphics ribbon, Text Symbol group, in the Text Symbol gallery.

Click the More button in the lower right of the gallery and scroll down to find various styles including a yellow balloon callout.

You can customize any text symbol and save the text symbol to a style so it's always accessible in the text symbol style gallery both for graphic text and labels.

Here's a blog article that shows this process: Save Text as Style in ArcGIS Pro

Re: Include callout text for graphics layer

AdminNorskog — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:45:51 GMT

Thanks for your feedback.

But, what I would like is to have an icon (in menu below) to insert callout text directly.

Is it possible to include this ?

Re: Include callout text for graphics layer

JesseWickizer — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:59:18 GMT

Newly-added graphics inserted from that menu use the symbol styles configured in the Text and Graphics section of the ArcGIS Pro Options menu.

You could configure the Text graphic style to use a callout so that all newly created text graphics use that style.