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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
ArcMap
Getting started with ArcMap

An overview of ArcMap

Layers, data frames, and the table of contents

Starting ArcMap

Opening a map

Using the table of contents

Looking at a map in data view and layout view

Moving around the map

Working with spatial bookmarks

Opening magnifier and overview windows

Exploring data on a map

Saving a map and exiting ArcMap

Saving to previous versions of ArcGIS

Keyboard shortcuts in ArcMap

Working with the map cache
Creating maps

Basics of making maps

Creating a new map

Adding layers to a map

Adding coverages, shapefiles, and geodatabases to a map

Adding data from the Internet

Adding data from a GIS server

Adding TINs as surfaces

Adding CAD drawings

About coordinate systems and map projections

Specifying a coordinate system

About creating interactive maps

Referencing data in the map

Applying a coordinate transformation to a CAD layer

About displaying layers

About presenting attribute data

About map scale

Map layout

About the map tools

About World files

Adding x,y coordinate data to a map
Managing layers

About managing layers

Changing a layer's text description

Copying layers

Removing layers from the map

Managing group layers

Displaying layers at certain scales

Changing the appearance of the table of contents

Working with data frames

Setting a data frame's coordinate system

Repairing broken data links

Changing a layer's drawing order

Accessing layer properties

Saving a layer to disk

Exporting data to a new coordinate system
Symbolizing your data
Working with text
Working with graphics
Laying out and printing maps
Working with styles and symbols

About styles

Finding the styles you need

Creating new symbols and map elements

Modifying symbols and map elements

Saving the current styles

Organizing style contents

Creating line symbols

Creating fill symbols

Creating marker symbols

Creating text symbols

Working with color

Working with color ramps
Working with tables

About tables

Opening a layer's attribute table

Adding a table to a layout

Loading existing tabular data onto a map

Displaying tabular data

Controlling a table's appearance

Locating and viewing specific records in a table

Sorting records in a table

Selecting records in a table

Exporting records

Summarizing data in a table

Adding and deleting fields in a table

Editing attributes

Making field calculations

Working with date fields

About joining attribute tables

Joining attribute tables
Looking at data with graphs
Creating reports
Querying maps
Analyzing geometric networks
Working with rasters in ArcMap

About rasters

Choosing which raster formats will appear in the Add Data dialog

Adding a raster dataset to a map

Adding a raster catalog to a map

Displaying rasters

Improving raster display

Displaying the raster resolution

Removing the background area of a raster layer

Changing the default RGB band combination

About projecting raster datasets on-the-fly

About georeferencing

Georeferencing a raster dataset

World files

Symbolizing values of nodata in raster datasets

Making selections using the geodatabase raster catalog
Working with ArcPad
Working with StreetMap data
Getting started with StreetMap
Geocoding addresses with StreetMap USA data

Addresses that you can geocode with StreetMap USA data

Finding an address in the United States

Geocoding a table of addresses with StreetMap USA data

Rematching a geocoded feature class with StreetMap USA data
Finding a route using StreetMap USA data
GPS Support
Tablet PC
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
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