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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

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
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
Creating new features
Using a digitizer
Creating features from other features

Copying parallel line features

Creating buffers

Mirroring features

Creating and exploding multipart features

Combining features from different layers

Intersecting 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
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

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

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
3D Analyst
ArcScan
Getting started with ArcScan

An overview of ArcScan

How ArcScan works in the editing environment

Enabling the ArcScan extension

Adding the ArcScan toolbar

Changing the raster layer symbology

Selecting the target raster layer
Raster tracing

About raster tracing

Types of raster snapping properties

Setting the raster snapping options

Applying the vectorization settings for raster tracing

Creating line features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating line features using the Vectorization Trace tool

Creating polygon features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating polygon features using the Vectorization Trace tool
Batch vectorization
Cell selection
Raster cleanup

About preparing raster data for vectorization

Starting and stopping the raster cleanup session

Using the raster cleanup commands

Using the Raster Painting tools
Vectorization options and settings

About vectorization settings

Setting the vectorization options

Using the Raster Line Width tool
ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension
Business Analyst
Geostatistical Analyst
Maplex
Military Analyst
Military Overlay Editor
Getting started with MOLE
MOLE geodatabases
Adding MOLE symbols in ArcMap
Controlling the MOLE display
Using MOLE with other ESRI products

Adding MOLE symbols with the Coordinate tool

Using MOLE layers in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst

Creating a MOLE temporal layer in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst

Using MOLE with ArcSDE

Using MOLE with ArcIMS

Sample MOLE mission planning map

Exporting MOLE layers to ArcSDE

Versioning with MOLE

Using MOLE with ArcGlobe
Network Analyst
Publisher
Spatial Analyst
Survey Analyst
Tracking Analyst
Getting more help
Help for developers