The more I think about it, the more I see that "refresh per Selection Set" is The way. Very logical. It's similar to changing properties; If you need to "change level" of a single line amongst 10,000, you can select that single line and do it without affecting the other lines. Why is there a Selection Window? Why is there a Fence?? Well here's my work-around (as copied from my personal notes): Select and Group everything desired to be untouched by "refresh". "Locking" the Selected will not work. Perform the refresh. As well as the area that needed the Refresh, everything will be regenerated to default (as defined by drawing Rules). The grouped items will remain as they were (unaffected), and you'll now have tons of duplicates that need to be deleted; Just don't use a crossing window to select stuff to delete, cause you don't want to delete the big "group". Also be sure to not delete the new stuff that even made you do the refresh. Now, after the delete step, ungroup the big "group", and you'll have effected a localized refresh with annos retaining associations. Again, ...must see function for localized refresh: "Refresh Per Selection Set".
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