Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help

Use the table of contents links to the left-hand side to navigate to topics in this Help System, or use the links below to access information about an application or a common task.
Learn more about this Help system

Help for common tasks

Working with maps

• Specifying a coordinate system
• Exploring layers
• Opening a map
• Saving a map
• Printing a map

Managing data

• Adding folder connections
• Creating/accessing geodatabases
• Working with metadata
• Defining coordinate systems
• Adding spatial database connection

Editing data

• Creating features
• Selecting features
• Using snapping
• Moving features
• Editing attributes
• Adding the Editor toolbar

Geoprocessing data

• Aggregating features
• Merging data
• Unioning features
• Intersecting features
• Dissolving features
• Clipping features
• Joining attributes

Help by application, extension, or functionality

ArcGIS Desktop Applications

• ArcMap
• ArcCatalog
• ArcReader

ArcGIS Extensions

• 3D Analyst
• ArcScan
• Business Analyst
• Geostatistical Analyst
• Maplex
• Military Analyst
• Military Overlay Editor
• Network Analyst
• Publisher
• Spatial Analyst
• Survey Analyst
• Tracking Analyst

Special Functionality

• Data
• Geocoding
• Geodatabases
• Linear Referencing
• Topology