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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
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GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
An overview of the new functionality in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
Compatibility and migration to ArcGIS 9.1
What's new in geoprocessing for version 9.1
What's new in ArcMap for version 9.1
What's new in linear referencing for version 9.1
What's new in geodatabases for version 9.1
What's new in raster data for version 9.1
What's new in WMS services for version 9.1
Introducing the new ArcGIS Network Analyst extension
What's new in ArcGIS Schematics extension for version 9.1
What's new in ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension for version 9.1
What's new in ArcGIS Publisher extension and ArcReader for version 9.1
What's new in ArcGIS StreetMap for version 9.1
What's new in ArcPress for ArcGIS for version 9.1
What's new in ArcScan for ArcGIS extension for version 9.1
What's new in Maplex for ArcGIS extension for version 9.1
What's new in ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension for version 9.1
What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
Getting started
What is ArcGIS Desktop?
ArcGIS geodatabase
ArcGIS geoprocessing
ArcGIS geovisualization
ArcGIS Desktop extensions
GIS data structure types
Data types supported in ArcGIS
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
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
An overview of ArcReader
Table of contents, data frames, and layers
Getting help in ArcReader
Starting ArcReader
Opening a map in ArcReader
Controlling the look and feel of ArcReader
Viewing a map in data view and layout view
Using the ArcReader table of contents
Working with data frames and layers
Moving around on the map
Moving around a 3D globe
Using spatial bookmarks
Opening the magnifier window
Exploring data and features on a map
ArcReader messages
Printing from ArcReader
Closing and exiting ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
Creating new features
About creating new features
Creating point features and vertices
Creating lines and polygons
Creating segments using angles and lengths
Creating segments using angles from existing segments
Creating segments that are circular arc curves
Creating segments by tracing features
Using the snapping environment
Creating edit sketch geometry with the Traverse tool
Traverse file format
About setting distance units
Setting direction measuring systems and units
Using a digitizer
Creating features from other features
Editing existing features
Splitting lines and polygons
Trimming lines
Extending lines
Flipping lines
Dividing lines with points
Reshaping lines and polygons using a sketch
Adding and deleting vertices
Moving vertices
Changing the properties of a sketch
Scaling features
Clipping features
Stretching a feature's geometry proportionately
Smoothing and generalizing features
Editing topology
Editing attributes
Spatial adjustment
Editing geometric networks
Editing relationships and related objects
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing
Creating route data
Displaying and querying routes and events
Editing routes
Creating and editing event data
About creating and editing event data
Creating event tables in ArcCatalog
About overlaying event data
Overlay events
About aggregating event data
Aggregating route events
About transforming event measures
Transforming event measures
About locating features along routes
Locating features along routes
Editing event tables in ArcMap
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