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| Welcome to ArcGIS Explorer. ArcGIS Explorer lets you explore and present maps. Maps show you where things are, tell you what they are and help you understand why they are that way. ArcGIS Explorer lets you open a map, add other content to it, navigate around it, ask questions the map can answer, and present and share the map with others. If you and others in your organization work with ArcGIS Desktop products, you'll find numerous integrative and complementary uses for ArcGIS Explorer that will help you disseminate your work.

The maps you'll explore with ArcGIS Explorer may be draped on a globe or you can view them as 2D documents. You'll be able to navigate over the terrain and map and know where you are by seeing the current latitude and longitude, U.S. National Grid coordinate, or MGRS coordinate of the middle of the display and the current elevation of your observation point in the status area at the bottom of the display. Also, if you've enabled it, a north arrow appears that not only serves to indicate orientation but can be made active to control pan, zoom, rotatation, and tilt actions.

You can add a comprehensive set of data in numerous formats to ArcGIS Explorer, displaying the rich analytical symbology the data was created with. In addition you can control the scale at which the data display.

In this introductory section of the ArcGIS Explorer Online Help we'll point you to the key topics that will help you learn how to navigate, present, structure, organize, and share the world from your perspective. Among the topics covered are:

- Using the keyboard
- Using the mouse
- Using the Navigator
- Adding data sources
- Creating notes
- Organizing the map
- Creating presentations
- Adding functionality
- Deploying customized user experiences

##### Additional help

To the left of this page, you'll see a table of contents that will direct you to other topics that you should find of interest. Also, you may have seen that each control on the Ribbon has a brief description about its use in the form of a tool tip. If there is more specific information about the control you'll be able to press F1 to open a relevant help topic. Similarly, you'll find that some dialogs have help links as well. In addition, use the Index and Search tabs to the left to help you find information in this help system.