Hi Brian, I'm glad the dims are useful! You can have both the distance and additional text show in a dimension by going to the "Details..." object properties dialog and under Annotation properties > Text put in the text you want and also include a <> (less-than and greater-than characters with no space between them). The <> will be substituted with the numeric value.
So for example if you set the dimension's text value to be "Distance = <>", it will display like this:
- Michael
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