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By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A lot of people don’t know about the ArcMap Advanced Settings utility – it can help you customize some of ArcMap’s default options and as a result make your experience with ArcMap a bit more efficient and personalized. \u00a0The executable file that starts the utility is located in your ArcGISUtilities folder.\u00a0 On my computer, the path is C:Program FilesArcGISUtilities.\u00a0 Double-click the AdvancedArcMapSettings.exe filename to start the utility.\u00a0 Here are some options you may find useful on the various tabs:
\nSystem paths tab
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On the System Paths tab, you can set where ArcMap will automatically look for your style files. Change this if you want to store frequently used styles in some place other than the install directory for ArcGIS.\u00a0 Note that this will reduce the number of styles shown by the More Styles button on the symbol selector dialog as it will only show the styles in the directory that you set here.<\/p>\n


\nSymbols\/Graphics tab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Symbols\/Graphics tab, you can change the defaults for the color ramps and color schemes, and the background color for your maps.\u00a0 You can also set a new default marker size and line width.<\/p>\n

Data Frame\/TOC tab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You can also find some options that relate to symbols on the Data Frame\/TOC tab.\u00a0 Here you can set an option that relates to rotation – this is for rotating your marker symbols with the data frame.<\/p>\n

Raster tab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Raster tab, one option you might want to change is the default resampling mode.\u00a0 It is currently set to Nearest Neighbor – this is the option you would use for displaying rasters that have discrete classed data, like land cover.\u00a0 If you more often display continuous raster data, like DEMs and hillshades, then you should set the resampling mode to Bilinear Interpolation and your display will look a lit less “pixelly”.<\/p>\n

Take a little time to see what other default setting you can change through this utility when you have a minute.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4331,"user_firstname":"Aileen","user_lastname":"Buckley","nickname":"Aileen Buckley","user_nicename":"abuckley","display_name":"Aileen Buckley","user_email":"abuckley@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:57","user_description":"Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer researcher and Senior Principal GIS Engineer at Esri. I'm on the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Team, making, writing, and talking about maps. 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