Rob, To use an Annotation Feature Class you'll first need to create a Layer file (.lyr) for it in ArcGIS Desktop - we don't support adding it directly from a Geodatabase. Another option for quickly labelling content whilst in the application is the Feature Labeller Add-in on ArcGIS.com: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=856431c3611b4ffa847938906a5ea43d. Cheers Mike It would seem I, like most other users, are incredulous at the inability to label in this "viewer" software. This "feature labeller" (something I recall not being an issue in the old skewl ArcExplorer??) is not available for download it seems (it says there is an error which I have encountered for the last 3 days). When trying to make data available to business streams, as ESRI suggests it wants to, but without wanting to pay the hefty licensing fee (which is also obvious that ESRI wants us to) the is no way of demonstrating the versatility of ESRI as a product to users (which will never use even a fraction of the power of Explorer let alone the purchased products) a viewer is a way of getting GIS out there and digestible. But these people have seen google maps/bing and the like, and would demand as a minimum capabilities similar to those other products they use at home and in their daily life.
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