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Oliver Burdekin
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If you are adding text to a map in the data view it will be added as annotation. There's is a difference between text (on a layout, like a title) and text in the data view (actually an annotation). The data frame has a default annotation group. The only way I can recreate the described problem is by adding text from the drawing toolbar when the default annotation group is turned off.

As a possible fix, go to your dataframe in the table of contents, right click and select properties:

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Then in the properties dialog box choose the annotation groups tab and make sure the default annotation group is checked and click okay. Your text should appear:

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If you are adding text to a map in the data view it will be added as annotation. There's is a difference between text (on a layout, like a title) and text in the data view (actually an annotation). The data frame has a default annotation group. The only way I can recreate the described problem is by adding text from the drawing toolbar when the default annotation group is turned off.

As a possible fix, go to your dataframe in the table of contents, right click and select properties:

enter image description here

Then in the properties dialog box choose the annotation groups tab and make sure the default annotation group is checked and click okay. Your text should appear:

enter image description here

If you are adding text to a map in the data view it will be added as annotation. There's a difference between text (on a layout, like a title) and text in the data view (actually an annotation). The data frame has a default annotation group. The only way I can recreate the described problem is by adding text from the drawing toolbar when the default annotation group is turned off.

As a possible fix, go to your dataframe in the table of contents, right click and select properties:

enter image description here

Then in the properties dialog box choose the annotation groups tab and make sure the default annotation group is checked and click okay. Your text should appear:

enter image description here

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Oliver Burdekin
  • 1.5k
  • 1
  • 15
  • 29

If you are adding text to a map in the data view it will be added as annotation. There's is a difference between text (on a layout, like a title) and text in the data view (actually an annotation). The data frame has a default annotation group. The only way I can recreate the described problem is by adding text from the drawing toolbar when the default annotation group is turned off.

As a possible fix, go to your dataframe in the table of contents, right click and select properties:

enter image description here

Then in the properties dialog box choose the annotation groups tab and make sure the default annotation group is checked and click okay. Your text should appear:

enter image description here