You can change properties of an annotation. Click the annotation text box to select it. Right-click inside the text box, and select Properties from the pop-up menu.

The Text Properties dialog box appears. (See Figure 8.7.) The dialog box has two tabs. You can use the Font tab to set attributes of the font that is used to display an annotation. The Font tab is described in Common Plot Properties.

You can use the Text Editor tab to set attributes of the text box. The Text Editor tab has the following UI controls:

Text Alignment

specifies the alignment of the text within the text box.

Horizontal

specifies the horizontal position of the text box within the graph area or plot area.

Vertical

specifies the vertical position of the text box within the graph area or plot area.

Background

specifies the color of the text box background.

Show border

specifies whether to display a border around the text box.

Figure 8.7 Text Editor Tab