# Make-up of Annotation Tool

Annotation is a tool available in DocuWorks documents like notepads, markers, and stamps in paper documents. This topic describes annotation tools for pasting annotations and annotation tool files for saving annotation tools.
Note
For Viewer Light Control, annotation tools cannot be used.

## Make-up of Annotation tool

Drawings, lines, and illustrations pasted to document pages are called annotations.
Annotation tools are used to paste annotations. Annotation tools are registered with the annotation toolbar.
The annotation toolbar configuration information is stored in the annotation tool file.
On installation, various types of annotation tools are readily available by default. You can paste them without changing them or change colors and shapes after pasting them. Also, you can use them as a template to create other annotation tools.
Annotation tools are set up for each user. Annotation tools are set on a user-by-user basis. By distributing the file storing the created annotation tools, the same annotation tools can be used on other PCs.
In Viewer or Viewer Control, the same annotation tools are used.
If you edit annotation tools in Viewer, the tools will appear the next time you start Viewer Control.

## Menus and buttons of annotation tools

Annotations are pasted using menus and buttons of annotation tools.
The annotation toolbar name appears in the [Annotations] menu and annotation tool names appear in the submenus.