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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
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 ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 9.0
Getting started
Desktop Administration

Administering the ArcGIS License Manager

Checking license availability

Viewing and changing the license manager

Common license manager problems and how to solve them

Setting the software product

Registering ArcView or ArcEditor and extensions

Evaluating an ArcGIS extension
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog

An overview of ArcCatalog

Starting ArcCatalog

Browsing through the Catalog

What's in the Catalog?

Repositioning the Catalog tree

Stopping ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog

About folders and file types

Managing folder connections

Geodatabases and their contents

Creating and accessing geodatabases

Creating spatial database connections

Adding OLE DB connections

About GIS servers and services

Connecting to GIS servers

Working with database connections

Hiding folders and items

Changing a data format's properties

Working with file types
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata
Searching for items

About search results

Finding items using the Search tool

Searching with geographic criteria

Searching with temporal criteria

Searching with keywords

Exploring the results of your search

Modifying the search results
Working with maps and layers
Working with shapefiles
Working with CAD data
Working with coverages
Working with rasters in ArcCatalog
ArcMap
Getting started with ArcMap
Creating maps
Managing layers
Symbolizing your data
Working with text
Working with graphics
Laying out and printing maps
Working with styles and symbols
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
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

ArcGIS Developer Help