From what I have researched, I’m pretty sure the answer is NO, but I want to make sure no one has found a work-around.
Annotation feature classes in personal geodatabases need to be added to mxds. The annotation is not already in the mxd. I tried Make Feature Layer and add layer through arcpy.mapping and it did not work. Esri states that complex features such as annotation are not supported.
So, I have to open 88 mxds and drag in the annotation feature classes?