Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help 9.3, including 9.3.1
For other versions, click here.

This help system contains information about ArcGIS 9.3, as well as 9.3.1. The core help is the same for both releases. Help topics updated to include 9.3.1 content are marked with "Note: This topic was updated for 9.3.1". New Help topics, about to ArcGIS 9.3.1 only, are marked "Note: This topic applies to 9.3.1, only".

If you are new to ArcGIS, start by reading Using ArcGIS Desktop, or What is ArcGIS 9.3?.

Mapping and Visualization

• Exploring layers
• Layouts and printing
• Cartographic representations
• Animating data
• Working with GIS Web map layers
• Publishing optimized map services New at 9.3.1

Editing data

• Creating tables
• Editing table values
• Joining and relating tables
• Common editing tasks

Tables and attributes

• Creating features
• Moving features
• Table statistics
• Common tables and attributes tasks

Data management

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

Special Functionality

• Data support (CAD data, Coverages, netCDF, Rasters, Shapefiles, and terrains)
• Geocoding

Geoprocessing

• What is Geoprocessing?
• Frequently asked questions about Geoprocessing
• Tool errors and warnings
• Batch processing
• Validation code in script tools
• Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Server

Geodatabase and ArcSDE

• Common Geodatabase tasks
• File geodatabase
• ArcSDE Administration
• ArcSDE connections

ArcGIS Extensions

• 3D Analyst
• ArcScan
• Data Interoperability
• Geostatistical Analyst
• Image Server
• Maplex
• Military Overlay Editor
• Network Analyst
• Publisher
• Schematics
• Spatial Analyst
• Survey Analyst
• Tracking Analyst

• Linear Referencing
• Topology
• Map projections and coordinate systems