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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
Managing layers
Symbolizing your data
Working with text
Working with graphics

An overview of working with graphics

Drawing points, lines, and circles

Selecting graphics

Moving, rotating, and ordering graphics

Aligning, distributing, and grouping graphics

Joining graphics
Laying out and printing maps

About laying out and printing maps

About map templates

Starting a map from a template

Saving a map as a template

Setting up the page

Changing the layout

Adding data frames

Customizing data frames

Clipping data frames to a custom shape

Focusing a data frame

Using extent rectangles

Using rulers, guides, and grids

Adding North arrows, scale bars, and other map elements

Working with legend patch shapes

Working with titles

Working with graphic elements, pictures, and neatlines

Adding grids and graticules (reference systems)

Disabling wizards in ArcMap

Aligning and grouping map elements

Printing a map

Printing with the ArcPress printer engine

Exporting a map
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
Looking at data with graphs
Creating reports
Querying maps

About querying maps

Identifying features

Displaying a Web page or document about a feature

Making hyperlinks with relative pathnames

Selecting features interactively

Using Select by Attributes

Using Select by Graphics

About building an SQL expression

SQL reference

Selecting features according to their location

Specifying how selected features highlight

Displaying information about selected features

Exporting features

The Buffer Wizard versus ArcToolbox buffer tools

How the Buffer Wizard works with coordinate systems

Adding the Buffer Wizard to the Tools menu

Using the Buffer Wizard to create buffers around features

Using the Buffer Wizard to buffer from selected graphics

Joining the attributes of features by their location

Using selection layers
Analyzing geometric networks
Working with rasters in ArcMap
Working with ArcPad
Working with StreetMap data
Getting started with StreetMap

An overview of StreetMap

About StreetMap USA data

Converting StreetMap USA data into other feature classes
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

An overview of Tablet PC

ArcGIS and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

About the Tablet toolbar

Adding the Tablet toolbar

Pen tool

Highlighter tool

Eraser tool

Finish Ink Sketch command

Clear Ink Sketch command

Add Ink to Edit Sketch command

Recognize Ink Graphic command

Reactivate the Selected Ink Graphic command

Find Ink Graphic command

Tablet Options button
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

About digitizing

An overview of preparing to digitize

Registering the paper map

Digitizing features on a paper map
Creating features from other features
Editing existing 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
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
Getting started with ESRI Data and Maps

What's new in ESRI Data and Maps

An overview of ESRI Data and Maps

Redistribution rights
Canada
Europe
Mexico
World

World Administrative Units

World Cities

World Continents

World Countries (generalized)

World Countries 1992

World Countries 2005

World CountryWatch Demographics (table)

World Country Memberships of Political Organizations (table)

World Drainage Systems

World Gazetteer

World Lakes

World Latitude and Longitude Grids

World Named Latitudes and Longitudes

World Regions

World Rivers

World Time Zones

World UTM Zones

World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions

World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions
StreetMap USA
Image data
United States (census)
United States (hydrography)
United States (landmarks)
United States (other)
United States (transportation)

United States Highways

United States Major Highways

United States Major Roads

United States National Atlas Airports

United States National Transportation Atlas Interstate Highways

United States National Transportation Atlas Railroads

United States TANA/GDT Airports

United States TANA/GDT Transportation Terminals
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers