Thank you both for your quick response and solutions. Each has it's benefits. For the mapanntext, it was easy to do and kept the changes. I still had to move some around probably because of the shape of the "parcel". When I updated annotation I had the choice of retain or ignore (something like that) and I chose retain. The labels moved back to original insertion but the items I deleted were um deleted. ha. I undid to the point and chose ignore and they all went away. I tried REA but they didn't appear, so I retained, moved and saved. All good. For the pick Maps icon, it did save them as a group which I could explode and delete/move which was good, but it changed all the mtext in the dwg to ####. If the shapefiles were the only objects in the dwg, it'd be fine.
Got the results I needed. It's a great C3D day!
