You can click and hold the mouse to drag them to a new position, or use keyboard shortcuts to move the graphics across the map. There are many ways to move graphic elements in a map. However, graphic elements cannot snap to other graphic elements in the map. If snapping is enabled, you can use other types of tools (such as the Measure tool) on graphic elements in the map. The Graphics tab contains tools for editing, arranging, and symbolizing graphic elements. When one or more graphic elements are selected, you can apply a variety of graphic operations to them. However, graphic elements do remain selected when using feature selection tools and can be copied, cut, or pasted from the Edit tab if the graphic elements were the last copied, cut, or pasted items. You cannot use feature selection tools to select graphic elements, and vice versa. Graphic element selection tools operate independently from the feature selection tools on the Edit tab. Only non-text shapes-rectangle, polygon, lasso, circle and ellipse-can be used to clip to an outline. You can also use the selected graphic elements of the graphics layer to set your map's extent or clip the map's layers to a custom extent on the map's Properties dialog box. To avoid selecting graphic elements from all graphics layers, in the Contents pane, click List By Selection and uncheck the box to disable selection for those layers. Click Clear Selection to deselect all graphic elements. To work with all graphic elements in a map, across all graphics layers, click Select All. If the element is grouped with other elements, you can click the group, and click the individual element again to select it. You can cut, copy, and paste graphic elements between layers by right-clicking the element and selecting the option or using keyboard shortcuts. Similar to feature selection, you can select graphic elements interactively by clicking or drawing a selection shape around the elements. These tools are available under Map, on the Graphics tab, in the Edit group. Graphic elements use a specialized set of interactive selection tools. This allows you to continue to add graphic shapes, pictures, orĪfter a graphic element is created, you can select it to move it, resize it, change its color or symbol, and arrange its position relative to other graphic elements. The map, click to expand the Insert gallery on the ribbon and enable the Keep the last tool active option. By default, the application switches to selection mode after a graphic element is created.
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