John Calkins presented his popular yearly top ten time savers for ArcGIS Desktop 9.3
1. A new error reporting system that pops up whenever there is a crash. This ability quickly and anonymously reports errors to the development team in order to optimize performance, eliminate bugs and streamline development priorities.
2. The Identify tool provides the ability to navigate right to layer symbology with no need to hunt through layers. The tool also lets you design and style HTML updates with links and pop-ups to other Web content.
3. Convert graphics to features.
4. Reverse geocoding with an address inspector that allows you to automatically find addresses and click to label the address, allowing you to quickly add addresses quickly to the map.
5. Table sorting, aliases and joins allows you to sort the table in multiple fields, including by last edits, who the editor was, etc. You can also change the table headers between field aliases and how info is stored in the database. Field aliases are then persistent as table headings.
6. Transparencies on the maps will now be incorporated in legends to closely match colors on the map with the legend.
7. You can now clip a raster or image to a graphic shape. The shape can define the study area and extract all data in that area.
8. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to pause different layers, such as time series layers or to turn on and off different layers.
9. Labeling pauses allow you to turn on and off labels.
10. Bookmarks are now more accessible, with the bookmark manager allowing you to rearrange them in the order that you want. You can also double click to navigate to the extent and save and share bookmarks between documents and users.
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