1. ArcView 3.3
Purpose
This is the set of conventions to be used by authors when developing slides for course presentations. The goal is to provide a consistent framework within which authors and editors can easily generate and refine predictably formatted content, an identity that is easily recognizable from slide to slide and from course to course.
Consistent application of changes
Share your problems and solutions. If any of the conventions noted in this guide do not work, authors and editors should bring it to the attention of Mike Livingston. Authors and editors will revisit the conventions and change them as needed such that changes will be applied to all presentations thereafter.
Created 10/10/97. Revised 10/20/97.
Introduction to ArcGIS I (for ArcView 8, ArcEditor 8, and ArcInfo 8)

2. ArcView documents
View
Table
Layout
Chart
Script

3. ArcView projects Contain ArcView documents
Store your work in a single file (.apr) that references your data
List all documents in the Project window
Views
Project window
Tables
Charts
Layouts
Scripts

4. Introducing views and themes
A theme is a collection of similar geographic features and their attributes
Themes are displayed in views
Each theme has a title and a legend in the view’s Table of Contents
View GUI
Themes
Map Display
Table of Contents

5. Common theme operations
Turning themes on and off
Making themes active (raised)
Changing the display order (by dragging)

6. Introducing tables A document for displaying tabular information
Formatted into records (rows) and fields (columns)
Contains descriptive information about theme features
Table GUI
Fields
Records

7. Introducing charts Display tabular data graphically
Allow you to compare attribute information
Chart GUI

8. Introducing layouts Provide a way to create presentation-quality maps
Display multiple documents (views, tables, charts) and graphics
Can be sent to a printer or plotter
Layout GUI