Parcel Editor - Movement (Zooming) Buttons and Tools

With the exception of the Saved Extent button, these tools are similar to the standard buttons they resemble on the ArcView View button and tool bars.

Full Extent button

This button will zoom the display so you can see your entire edit theme. If you hold down the Shift key and click it, you will zoom to the extent of all the themes in the View.

Zoom to Sel button

This button zooms the display to the extent of all the selected features in your edit theme. If no features are selected, it will appear 'grayed-out'.

Saved Extent button

This button zooms the display to an extent you have saved. To save the current extent of the View's display so you can zoom to it later, Shift-click here. Then, clicking here will zoom to your last saved extent.

Zoom to previous extent button

Clicking this button will take you back to the previous zoom extent.

Zoom In button

This button zooms in (zooming in makes the land area shown on the display decrease, and the size of individual features on the display increase) by a set percentage of the current extent.

Zoom Out button

This button zooms out (zooming out makes the land area shown on the display increase, and the size of individual features on the display decrease) by a set percentage of the current extent.

Zoom In tool

Click this tool and drag a rectangle on the display to zoom to the extent of that rectangle. This is the best way to change what area you are looking at in the display.

Zoom Out tool

Click this tool and drag a rectangle on the display to zoom out. The smaller the rectangle, the more you will zoom out.

Pan tool

Click this tool and then click on the display, hold the mouse button down and drag the mouse around to pan around on the display. This tool does not change the scale of the display--you zoom neither in nor out.

Measure tool

This tool enables you to measure distances (in the View's distance units, or, if no distance units are specified, in whatever units your data is projected in) on the display. This is useful if you want to see how close two features are to each other or how far a feature is from a landmark such as a road on a background theme or image. Click this tool so it appears 'pressed-in' and click once on the display where you want to start measuring from and move the mouse around. The distance will appear on the status bar on the bottom of the ArcView window. To stop measuring, click on another tool on the dialog, such as the Select Feature tool.

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