Layers & Symbology

• Using Hatch Fills

• Graduated Colors and Classification Breaks

• Setting Custom Background Colors and Pattern Fills

• Notes on Customizing the Legend

• Notes on Using Definition Queries (Data Filters)

• Using Layer Files to Save and Reuse Symbology

• Selecting Data and Creating Selection Layers

• Grouping Categories (Collapsing the Symbology)

Text

• AddingText to Labels

• Converting Labels to Annotation

• Show All Labels (and/or convert All Labels to Annotation)

• Splined Text

• Setting a Reference Scale for Annotation

• Setting Label Properties

SQL: Using MOD to Select Features based on numerical remainders

• SQL: Using 'Wild Cards' to Select Features

• Stacking Labels (labeling on multiple lines)

• Using the Add Label Tool

• Using Multiple Fields for Labels

• UPPER CASE, lower case, Proper Case and ALL CAPITAL PROPER CASE LABELS

Layout

• How to add a Word Document or Excel Spreadsheet to ArcMap

• Using Focus Data Frame Button to Access the Data Frame from the Layout View

Printing

• Printing your Big Map to a Small Page (test plots)

• PRINTING on 11x17 paper in AH-16

• See also, printing Drafts of larger maps (reduced size) on 11x17 paper

Data Frame

• Setting a Map's Scale and Extent

• Setting A Fixed (Set) Scale

• Saving and Using Spatial Bookmarks< /li>

• Using A Graphic or Layer to Control (Clip) a Map's Extent (Display)

• Setting a Coordinate System(Projection) for a Data Frame

• Change, Move or Remove the default data credits that ESRI adds when using one of the Basemaps

Adobe Illustrator

• Exporting from ArcGIS to Adobe Illustrator

• Creating Drop Shadows

• Creating Blurred Edges for Polygons

• Halo Text

• Custom Transparencies

• Inset Border Outlines for Polygons

• Shoreline Vignettes

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