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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
What's new in ArcGIS 9.2
Migration guides
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
Getting started
Map projections and coordinate systems
Getting started with map projections
Geographic coordinate systems
About geographic coordinate systems
Spheroids and spheres
Datums
North American datums
What happens to features at +/-180 (dateline)?
Projected coordinate systems
About projected coordinate systems
About map projections
Projection types
Planar projections
Conic projections
Cylindrical projections
Other projections
Projection parameters
Geographic transformations
Supported map projections
List of supported map projections
Aitoff
Alaska Grid
Alaska Series E
Albers Equal Area Conic
Azimuthal Equidistant
Behrmann Equal Area Cylindrical
Bipolar Oblique Conformal Conic
Bonne
Cassini-Soldner
Chamberlin Trimetric
Craster Parabolic
Cube
Cylindrical Equal Area
Double Stereographic
Eckert I
Eckert II
Eckert III
Eckert IV
Eckert V
Eckert VI
Equidistant Conic
Equidistant Cylindrical
Equirectangular
Fuller
Gall's Stereographic
Gauss-Kruger
Geocentric Coordinate System
Geographic Coordinate System
Gnomonic
Great Britain National Grid
Hammer-Aitoff
Hotine Oblique Mercator
Krovak
Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
Lambert Conformal Conic
Local Cartesian Projection
Loximuthal
McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
Mercator
Miller Cylindrical
Mollweide
New Zealand National Grid
Orthographic
Perspective
Plate Carree
Polar Stereographic
Polyconic
Quartic Authalic
Rectified Skewed Orthomorphic
Robinson
Simple Conic
Sinusoidal
Space Oblique Mercator
State Plane Coordinate System
Stereographic
Times projection
Transverse Mercator
Two-Point Equidistant
Universal Polar Stereographic
Universal Transverse Mercator
Van der Grinten I
Vertical Near-Side Perspective
Winkel I
Winkel II
Winkel Tripel
Vertical coordinate systems
About vertical coordinate systems
Vertical datums
Geoid
Mapping and visualization
An overview of mapping and visualization
Using ArcMap
Layers, data frames, and the table of contents
Starting ArcMap
Creating a new map
Opening a map
Using the table of contents
About coordinate systems and map projections
Specifying a coordinate system
Referencing data in the map
Working with data frames
Pausing the map's drawing
Saving a map and exiting ArcMap
Saving to previous versions of ArcGIS
Keyboard shortcuts in ArcMap
Working with layers
Adding layers to a map
Adding x,y coordinate data as a layer
Changing a layer's drawing order
Changing a layer's text description
Setting layer properties
Managing group layers
Saving a layer to disk
Copying layers
Displaying layers at certain scales
Displaying a subset of features in a layer
Repairing broken data links
Viewing a layer's metadata in ArcMap
GIS service layers
An overview of GIS service layers
Working with ArcWeb services
Adding data from a GIS portal
Adding an ArcIMS service layer to ArcMap
ArcIMS service layers and coordinate systems
Querying features from an ArcIMS service layer
Adding a WMS service layer to ArcMap
WMS service layers and coordinate systems
Querying features from a WMS service layer
Adding an ArcGIS Server service layer to ArcMap
Querying features from an ArcGIS Server service layer
Organizing service layers in the table of contents
Changing the rendering of service layers
Printing or exporting maps containing service layers
Navigating and interacting with maps
Navigating maps and layout pages
Looking at a map in data view and layout view
Quick ways to navigate maps and pages
Moving around the map
Setting the map scale
Saving and navigating to favorite places
Working with spatial bookmarks
Opening magnifier, viewer, and overview windows
Setting a custom extent for the map's full extent
Working with data frame reference scales
Working with the map cache
Interacting with maps
Adding graphics and text to maps
Symbolizing data
Applying symbology
Styles and symbols
Animation
Using cartographic representations
Getting started with representations
Representation concepts
Working with representations
Editing feature representations
Page layout and map composition
Getting started with laying out and printing maps
Map elements
Grids and graticules
Rulers and guides
Working with data frames in layout view
Creating interactive and paperless maps
Creating interactive maps
Displaying layers in interactive maps
Presenting attribute data in interactive maps
Setting map scales in interactive maps
Laying out interactive maps
Using tools with interactive maps
Map output
Working with graphs and reports
Looking at data with graphs
About looking at data with graphs
Types of graphs
Sources of information to graph
Using Series with graphs
Creating a graph
Setting the colors of a graph
Displaying a graph
Graph options
Modifying a graph
Adding a function
Managing graphs
Saving and loading a graph
Exporting a graph
Interactive querying of graphs
Working with graphs in Layout
Using graph templates
Further information about graph types
Using the advanced properties
Creating pre-ArcGIS 9.2 style graphs
(Pre-ArcGIS 9.2) Looking at data with graphs
About looking at data with graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Types of graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Creating a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Displaying a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Modifying a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Creating a static copy of a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Managing graphs (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Saving and loading a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Exporting a graph (Pre-ArcGIS 9.2)
Enabling pre-ArcGIS 9.2 style graphing
Creating reports
About reports
Creating a simple report
Setting the report type and size
Working with fields in reports
Organizing report data
Adding report elements
Controlling the presentation of a report
Saving and loading a report
Using Crystal Reports
Editing and data compilation
An overview of editing and data compilation
Getting started with editing
About editing your geodatabase in ArcMap
Adding the data you want to edit
The structure of vector datasets
Adding the editing toolbars
Starting and stopping an edit session
The sketch construction tools
Using the snapping environment
About setting distance units
Setting direction measuring systems and units
Shortcut keys for editing in ArcMap
Common editing tasks
Common point editing tasks
Common line editing tasks
Common polygon editing tasks
Common annotation editing tasks
Common multipoint editing tasks
Editing data in a different projection
Creating new features
Editing existing features
Editing attributes
Editing attributes
Copying and pasting attributes
Deleting attributes
Editing with default values and attribute domains
About updating data using SQL
Editing annotation
An overview of editing annotation
Creating new annotation features
Creating and editing annotation that follows features
Editing the size and position of annotation features
Editing annotation in the Attributes dialog box
Editing the appearance of annotation features
Editing feature-linked annotation
Editing dimension features
Using a digitizer
Spatial adjustment
Editing topology
Editing relationships and related objects
COGO
An overview of COGO
Common COGO workflows
About COGO descriptions
Adding COGO fields to a feature class
Traverse file format
Offset points file format
Applying a ground to grid correction
Reporting COGO descriptions
Using the Curve Calculator command
Using the COGO Area command
Splitting features into COGO lines
Geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tool reference
An overview of commonly used tools
Geoprocessing commands quick reference guide
Licensing for geoprocessing tools
Data types for geoprocessing tool parameters
3D Analyst toolbox
Analysis toolbox
Business Analyst toolbox
Cartography toolbox
Conversion toolbox
Coverage toolbox
Data Interoperability toolbox
Data Management toolbox
Geocoding toolbox
Geostatistical Analyst toolbox
Linear Referencing toolbox
Multidimensional toolbox
Military Analyst toolbox
Military Overlay Editor toolbox
Network Analyst toolbox
Server toolbox
Spatial Analyst toolbox
Spatial Statistics toolbox
Samples toolbox
Tracking Analyst toolbox
Environment Settings
Environment settings
General settings
Cartography settings
Coverage settings
Geodatabase settings
Raster Analysis settings
Raster Storage settings
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
Data management with ArcCatalog
Data support in ArcGIS
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
ArcGIS Image Server
GIS Servers and services