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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
Getting started
Desktop Administration
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
The Contents tab
Working in Details view
Changing the columns in Details view
Modifying the default settings for exploring contents
Exploring an item's properties
Organizing your data
Converting data to a different format
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring the values in a table
About tabular data sources
Previewing the values in a table
Changing how tables look
Calculating statistics
Sorting records in a table in ArcCatalog
Finding values in a table
Adding and deleting columns
Creating new data sources from the values in a table
Working with metadata
Searching for items
Working with maps and layers
Working with shapefiles
About shapefiles, dBASE tables, and file types
Creating new shapefiles and dBASE tables
Adding and deleting attributes
Creating and updating indexes
Defining a shapefile's coordinate system
Working with CAD data
Working with coverages
Working with rasters in ArcCatalog
About raster data
Properties of raster datasets
Exploring geodatabase raster catalogs
Tabular raster catalogs
Initial display properties of a raster
Setting the default band for a raster
Defining a raster's coordinate system
Calculating statistics for your raster dataset
Creating raster pyramids
Mosaicking rasters
Raster display performance tuning
Performance tuning for rasters in ArcSDE
Choosing which raster formats will appear in ArcCatalog
Supported raster formats
Technical specifications for raster formats
Pixel depth capacity
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geoprocessing Commands Quick Reference Guide
An overview of commonly used tools
Licensing for geoprocessing tools
3D Analyst toolbox
Analysis toolbox
Business Analyst toolbox
Cartography toolbox
An overview of the Cartography toolbox
Cartography toolbox sample applications
Masking toolset
Conversion toolbox
An overview of the Conversion toolbox
From Raster toolset
An overview of the From Raster toolset
About converting from raster data
Tools
To CAD toolset
To Coverage toolset
To dBASE toolset
To Geodatabase toolset
To Raster toolset
To Shapefile toolset
An overview of the To Shapefile toolset
Tools
Feature Class to Shapefile (multiple) (Conversion)
Coverage toolbox
Data Management toolbox
Geocoding toolbox
An overview of the Geocoding toolbox
Geocoding toolbox sample applications
Tools
Geostatistical Analyst toolbox
Linear Referencing toolbox
Military Analyst toolbox
Network Analyst toolbox
Spatial Analyst toolbox
Spatial Statistics toolbox
Samples toolbox
Environment Settings
General settings
Coverage settings
Geodatabase settings
Raster Analysis settings
Raster Geodatabase settings
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
An overview of editing in ArcMap
The structure of vector datasets
The sketch construction tools
Shortcut keys for editing in ArcMap
Adding the editing toolbars
Adding the data you want to edit
Starting and stopping an edit session
Selecting features
Moving features
Rotating features
Deleting features
Copying and pasting features
Setting the number of decimal places displayed for measurements
About editing your geodatabase in ArcMap
Creating new features
Using a digitizer
Creating features from other features
Copying parallel line features
Creating buffers
Mirroring features
Creating and exploding multipart features
Combining features from different layers
Intersecting features
Editing existing features
Editing topology
Editing attributes
Viewing attributes
Adding attributes
Deleting attributes
Modifying attributes
Copying and pasting attributes
Editing with default values and attribute domains
About updating data using SQL
Spatial adjustment
Editing geometric networks
Editing relationships and related objects
About editing relationships and related objects
Editing relationships and related objects
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Customizing the user interface
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers
ArcGIS Developer Help