Allow formatting of leader lines created in annotation
Hi there, the leaderline symbol is part of the text symbol and there are a couple of ways you can change it.
Option 1 - Most useful for one-off pieces of text
- Activate selection tool on ribbon (map tab or editing tab)
- Select your piece of annotation
- Launch the attributes pane (from the small icon on the ribbon - map tab or editing tab)
- Click the symbol button on attributes pane
- Go to callout properties
- Change the line (e.g. using simple line, or background callout for complex lines)
- Apply your changes and see the selected annotation update
Option 2 - Useful if you want to reuse the same line for multiple pieces of text
- Ensure you have no unsaved edits
- Open Catalog pane or window
- Navigate to your annotation feature class
- Right click and launch annotation feature class properties from the context menu
- Select 'Add new symbol' option
- Under symbol, set the desired leader and/or callout
- Save your new symbol into the feature class
- Now, when you come to create a new piece of annotation
- or edit an existing piece you can use this symbol to get the desired leader:
Hope that helps! Thanks,
Ciara
To add to what Ciara suggested, you can use the Annotation tool to add a leader line to a plane text or make other edits. You can find this tool in the Edit tools gallery in the Edit ribbon tab or within Modify features pane.
I created a gif to demo the workflow.
Annotation tool within the Modify Features pane (Edit ribbon tab > Modify Features > Alignment > Annotation)
For additional information, please check our online help here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/editing/edit-annotation-text.htm
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Josphat.