1 Introduction

Toolbars and menus

ArcMap has several standard toolbars you use to manage the map document and navigate
the map display. These are displayed when you first open ArcMap. The Tools toolbar
contains tools that let you zoom and pan the geographic data (the data contained in the data
frame). Its active in both data view and layout view. The Layout toolbar contains tools for
navigating the layout pageits active only in layout view.

These tools work with

the data inside the
active data frame
just like in data view

Pan the
data inside
the data
frame

These tools work

with the entire
pagetheyre
activated only in
layout view

Pan the page

in the display
window

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A number of specialized toolbars are used for specific tasks. These are accessed from the
View menu (point to Toolbars).

Additional toolbars are available from the

View menu.

You use context menus in ArcMap to access the setting, properties, and other options for
data frames, layers, and graphic objects (for example, you open a layers attribute table
from the context menu). Right-click a data frame name or layer name in the table of
contents to display the context menu. Right-click a graphic object in the display window to
display its context menu.

Right-click a component to
display the context menu.
Click Properties to display the
properties dialog box.

Properties dialog
box for a map

Properties dialog box for a layer

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