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When a new document is opened, the user often views the data layer in Data View. To view the data in layout view, which is the view in which a map will be printed, the user must click on the View menu and select Layout View. While viewing the layout, a Layout toolbar appears. These tools can be used to navigate around the map layout. By default, a normal template is used with every ArcMap™ document. The layout page will be displayed as a blank, single data frame. Though these features are characteristic of a normal template, there are other templates available for use. The ArcMap user is also allowed to design and save their own template for later use with other maps. To open a map template, ArcMap must be launched. In the ArcMap dialog, the user should click the option to use a template, then click OK. If ArcMap is already running, the user can click the File menu and click New. Within the New Template dialog box, all of the templates that come with ArcGIS can be found. Creating Maps Without Using a Map Template: The previous section describes how to use a map template. In many cases, the user prefers to create their own map layout design. This section focuses on describing the creation of a map layout without using an existing map template and the addition of a map title, a north arrow, a scale bar, and a legend. A map title may be added to the layout by clicking the Insert menu and selecting the Title option. A text box will be added to the page. Within this text box, a default title will be present. The user can type in a preferred title within the text box and press Enter. After the Enter key has been pressed, the user can go back and edit the title by double?clicking the on the title and editing its text properties. Once an arrow has been selected, its properties specified, and the OK button clicked, the north arrow will be added to the map layout. The user can resize the north arrow by clicking and dragging on one of its corners. In addition, the user can move the north arrow to any desired location within the map layout. By default, the legend includes all layers from the map, and the number of legend columns is set to one. The user can choose which layers may be displayed in the legend by selecting the layer from the Map Layer box and clicking the right arrow (>>). The selected layers will be displayed in the Legend Items box. Once the user selects the layers they want, the Next button should be clicked. The second frame of the wizard will appear.

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