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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
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
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
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Customizing the user interface
About customizing the user interface
Basic user interface elements
Saving your customizations
Hiding and showing toolbars
Creating custom toolbars
Changing a toolbar's or menu's contents
Changing a command's appearance
Creating shortcut keys
Setting toolbar options
Creating, editing, and running macros
Creating custom commands with VBA and UIControls
Adding custom commands and toolbars from .dlls
Updating the ArcID module
Locking customization, documents, and templates
Changing VBA security
Sample VBA code
Customize commands available in ArcMap
Customize commands available in ArcCatalog
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