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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
An overview of ArcCatalog
Starting ArcCatalog
Browsing through the Catalog
What's in the Catalog?
Repositioning the Catalog tree
Stopping ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Previewing an item's geographic data
Exploring data in Geography view
Creating thumbnails
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata
About metadata
Exploring an item's metadata
Changing the default stylesheet
Printing metadata
Creating and updating metadata
Writing documentation
Importing and exporting metadata
Editing metadata
Using the FGDC metadata editor
Using the ISO metadata editor
Managing enclosures
Requirements for publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Adding information required by the ArcIMS Metadata Service
Publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Managing published metadata documents
Changing a published document's properties
Searching for items
Working with maps and layers
Working with shapefiles
Working with CAD data
About CAD data
Defining a coordinate system for CAD data
Supported AutoCAD entities and MicroStation elements
Working with coverages
About coverages and INFO tables
Creating a new coverage
Creating a new INFO table
Generating topology
Defining a coverage's coordinate system
Modifying a coverage's tics
Modifying a coverage's extent
Setting a coverage's tolerances
Maintaining attributes
About relationships and relationship classes
Creating a coverage relationship class
Working with rasters in ArcCatalog
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Getting started with building a geodatabase
An overview of building geodatabases
Designing a geodatabase
Copying the schema of a geodatabase
Ways to create a geodatabase
Creating a geodatabase
Accessing an ArcSDE geodatabase
Upgrading a geodatabase
Creating new items in geodatabases
Importing data
Topology
An overview of topology in the geodatabase
Topologies and ArcCatalog
Topology and feature geometry
About creating a topology
Creating a new topology
Migrating data into a geodatabase to create topologies
Adding new feature classes to your topology
Creating new polygons from lines
Validating a topology
Planning for exceptions
Refining topologies with subtypes
Managing a topology
Modifying a topology
Summarizing topology errors
Topology and versioning
Topology and versioned databases
Dirty areas and versioned topological feature classes
Error features and versioned topological feature classes
Exceptions and versioned topological feature classes
Conflicts and topology features
Topology and disconnected editing
Subtypes and attribute domains
Defining a relationship class
Geometric networks
Managing annotation
Dimensioning
About dimensioning
Dimensions and ArcCatalog
Dimensions in the geodatabase
Creating dimension feature classes
Creating and managing dimension styles
Working with a versioned geodatabase
Disconnected editing
Building geodatabases with CASE tools
Building a raster geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Customizing the user interface
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Comparing ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
ArcView terminology
ArcView GIS extensions at 9
Importing an ArcView GIS 3 project into ArcMap
Importing an ArcView GIS 3 legend into ArcMap
Working with tables in ArcView 9
New features and functionality beyond ArcView GIS 3
ArcView 9 and the geodatabase
ArcView 9 import tools
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers