What’s New in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3

Presented by Colin Childs

Seminar overview

Your feedback has driven our development for ArcGIS 9.3. This release of the software is focused on improving stability, and incorporating the productivity enhancements and requests made by users to improve workflows and efficiency while using the software.

This seminar will therefore focus on several tools and workflows that demonstrate improvements in quality and functionality, and also illustrate how these will enhance your productivity.

Some of the enhancements covered are: conversion of graphics to features, improvements to bookmarks, raster export enhancements, incorporating transparent layers in legends, and enhancements to joins and relates.

Key points

The presenter will discuss:

• Conversion of graphics to features
• Improvements to bookmarks
• Raster export enhancements
• Enhancements to joins and relates
• Table sorting
• Improvements to layers and layer file handling
• Introducing the ArcGIS Desktop Resource Centers
• New HTML pop-ups

Intended audience

This seminar is intended for those who want to learn and explore some of the new usability enhancements included with ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop. Participants should be familiar with working in the ArcGIS 9.x environment, and should be able to navigate the ArcMap interface, work with tables and labels, symbolize data, and use ArcCatalog to manage GIS data.