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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
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
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
About maps, layers, and graphs
Opening a map from ArcCatalog
Adding data to maps
Creating a layer
Creating a group layer
Repairing the data sources in a layer
Joining attributes to the layer's data
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
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
An overview of importing data
Importing feature classes
Importing tables
How data converts
Registering SDE layers and tables with the geodatabase
About loading data into existing feature classes and tables
Work flow strategies for loading data
Loading data in ArcMap
Loading data in ArcCatalog
About importing data from another geodatabase
Copying feature datasets, classes, and tables to another geodatabase
Exporting selected features and records to another geodatabase
Sending data to another user
About exporting geodatabase data to an export file
Exporting feature datasets, classes, and tables to an export file
Importing feature datasets, classes, and tables from an export file
Exporting features or records to an export file
Loading features or records from an export file
Updating DBMS statistics
Topology
Subtypes and attribute domains
Defining a relationship class
Geometric networks
Managing annotation
Dimensioning
Working with a versioned geodatabase
An overview of versioning
Integrating versioning with your organization's work flow
Registering data as versioned
Creating and administering versions in ArcCatalog
Working with versions in ArcMap
Editing and conflict resolution
Editing a version
Versioning scenarios
Disconnected editing
Building geodatabases with CASE tools
Building a raster geodatabase
Rasters and the geodatabase
Performance tuning
Creating raster datasets in a geodatabase
Creating raster catalogs in a geodatabase
Loading and importing rasters
Exporting raster formats
Mosaicking raster datasets
Attributes of type raster
Raster data and disconnected editing
More details about rasters in ArcGIS
Upgrading your 8.x raster catalog
Updating your geodatabase raster catalog footprints
Editing in ArcMap
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
Getting started migrating from ArcInfo Workstation
Creating your ArcInfo Workstation migration plan
Phase 1: Requirements prior to migration from ArcInfo Workstation
Phase 2: Designing the geodatabase when migrating from ArcInfo Workstation
Phase 3: Migrating ArcInfo Workstation data
Phase 4: Migrating ArcInfo Workstation processes
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers