Annotations shown in model view?

A colleague grabbed me and had me look at a model he made a long time ago. The part is a basic shaft. He had dimensions showing the length of each step on the shaft. One end clearly was going to a sketch. These dimensions were not in a sketch however. He asked me "How did I do this?". He said it's been a long time since he did it and can't remember. I had no idea how it was done. If you click on one of the dim's, in the tree it would give it's label as RD7@Annotations or some such. I'm hoping this is not an old function that has gone away. I'll see if I can find his model and post a picture. 

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