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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
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
What's new in ArcMap: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcCatalog: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcCatalog: General
What's new in ArcCatalog: Data conversion tools
What's new in ArcCatalog: Internet data
What's new in ArcCatalog: Metadata
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 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
Working with CAD data
Working with coverages
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
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
Editing in ArcMap
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
Creating new features
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
About editing relationships and related objects
Editing relationships and related objects
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
About editing dimension features
Creating dimension features
Modifying a dimension feature's geometry and style
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