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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
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
What's new in ArcMap: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcCatalog: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 9.0
Getting started
Desktop Administration
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring 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

About CAD data

Defining a coordinate system for CAD data

Supported AutoCAD entities and MicroStation elements
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

An overview of geoprocessing
Getting started with geoprocessing

An overview of geoprocessing in ArcGIS

Introducing geoprocessing methods

Working with data

Results from running tools

Saving and loading geoprocessing settings

Keeping track of geoprocessing operations

Sharing your geoprocessing work
Working with toolboxes
Working with toolsets and tools
Specifying environment settings
Using the Command Line window
Introducing model building
Using the ModelBuilder window

An overview of the ModelBuilder window

Building a model

Element states

Running a model

Using nonexistent output data

Working with variables

About intermediate data

Working with intermediate data

Controlling the flow of processing

Using the Select Data tool

Working with model elements

Adding text labels

Working with diagram properties

Changing diagram properties

Navigating in the model

Validating a model

Repairing a model

Print setup

Setting up and printing a model

Generating a report

Documenting a process

Importing a model from ArcView GIS 3

Exporting a model
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
Creating new features
Using a digitizer
Creating features from other 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
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
Geocoding
Getting started with geocoding
Understanding geocoding
Preparing for geocoding
Building an address locator
Locating addresses
Additional geocoding techniques
Keeping an address locator current

Updating your reference data

Versioned data and the geocoding index

Rebuilding geocoding indexes
Distributing your address locator
Adjusting your address locator file
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