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I'd like to demonstrate a few things about using map scale in ArcMap.

So, you can set the map scale up here,

so I've got it set to 1-200,000 and you can see,

I've got this map design.

This map layout already set up and before I do anything else,

before I started messing around with it,

I'm going to show you how to save a spatial bookmark and what that is,

because if you see up here in the Menu's Bookmark and say,

Create Bookmark and I can call this,

let's just say it's Toronto,

and sometimes I'll put in the scale like 1-200k just so I know what that is and say Okay.

So, what that's doing is, it's saving the view that I've

got right now in terms of the location and the scale.

So, let me show you how that works.

If I change the scale,

so I can just use these tools interactively.

I can zoom in here,

if I want to look at part of Toronto and I'm doing this inside my map layout.

I could do this in the Data View just as easily and I'm looking around this and I think,

"Oh, wait a minute, I really liked where I had that set for

my map layout and how am I going to get it back exactly where I had it before?"

If you go up to the Bookmarks and then select the bookmark that you created,

it will take it right back to the location and scale that you set.

That is a very handy little thing to know how to do.

It saved me so many times,

it saves me a bunch of time,

is that you can just set it to a bunch of different ones if you want.

So, for example, if I was making a second map that would be at a different scale,

maybe I'm making one of just downtown Toronto.

Of course, I'd have to make some adjustments there.

I could create another bookmark at that scale and then skip between the two and so,

I've got these ones that I spend some time panning and

zooming and finding just the right layout that I like and I create that as a bookmark.

On top of that, you can also export bookmarks,

so then you can use them in other map documents.

To do this, just go to Bookmarks,

Manage Bookmarks and you'll see here that I can save these,

Save Selected or Save All and I can save those bookmarks to a file and then import

those to another map document if I've

got a sort of a set of them that I've developed over time,

for a particular study area.

Just a nice thing to know that it's there.

I can set map scales here to whatever I want,

so I can save 1-50,000 if you want to pick a nice round number.

I can actually customize this dropdown list so I can say,

I'd like to include 50,000,

add that to the dropdown list.

So, if I say, "Okay" and go back here,

you'll see that now 1-50,000 is in that dropdown.

So, if there's certain scales that you like,

that are kind of go-to values that you use all the time,

maybe depending on who you work for,

the type of projects you work on,

you set scales that you always want to have available,

that's just a nice little thing to be able to have as well.

So, that's essentially it.

You'll notice that by the way,

something that's not obvious,

is that if I switch to the Data View and use my spatial bookmark for Toronto 1-200,000,

it's not going to look exactly the same as it did in the Layout View.

So, if I switch back to

my Layout View and then back to my Data View,

you'll see that the scale is actually changed to 1-39,000.

Why am I telling you this? Just because sometimes it can be confusing and if you create

a spatial bookmark in the Data View and then

expect to be able to apply it in the Layout View,

it may not work the way you expect.

So I tend to save them for whatever it is that I'm using it for.

Most of the time, I'm more interested in having a bookmark for

the Layout View because that's where I'm trying

to get things exactly the way I want them,

so not to complicate things but I just wanted to make sure that was clear.

Something that may not be obvious when you're working with scale in ArcMap,

is the difference between zooming in and out of

your data versus zooming in and out of a Page Layout.

So, if I'm in Data View,

I can use this magnifying glass to zoom in and out of my dataset.

I can use the pen tool to move around and look at that Data View.

I can zoom out to the entire thing or actually,

let's zoom to the selected layer.

Okay, so that makes sense.

If I switch to the Layout View,

I can still do the same thing.

I can zoom in and out with the same magnifying glass

until I was just using to zoom to part of my data.

But if I go to the magnifying glass on the Layout Toolbar,

that I'm not zooming in and out of the data,

I'm zooming in and out of the actual layout,

so you see how the legend got larger.

So, think of the Layout Toolbar

as though you're zooming in and out of the actual sheet of

paper as opposed to zooming in and out of the data itself.

So, just something I wanted to make clear.

It's not something I think that's obvious when you're first starting out. So, that's it.

I just wanted to give you a quick overview of some of the things

you can do with map scale in ArcMap. There you go.