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Ok  Thanks for all the answers and advice.  I think I will keep doing it like I have been doing it.  

yes - mwlong is correct. Anticipating how the text will be at different scales is the whole issue with annotation. You want to try and minimize what text is shared thru files and scales,,,,if possible it would be best to put as much annotation at the top level (sheets) as possible but this is not always the best choice. This is the dilema that has plauged projects for years.

If you want one text (or one file) and this text is needed at different scales, then annotation scale is what needs to be used. Otherwise you end up doing what has already been suggested, or you are already currently doing.There is no wrong way of doing this, it is a matter of how much maintenence you want to do, or where you want to maintain it.

In a perfect world we would only need to change one file. I would love to be able to have one file that encompasses all situations. The problem I see with annotation scale is depending on the justification you will need to move the text around which creates problems in other files.

That is exactly what i am doing now.  Well kind of.  I am creating two files, with the text in question, at two different sizes.  I was just trying to get around that and have just one file in case changes need to be made, and in that case just to one file instead of two.