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Adding
Images &
Objects to
your Map
Layout
July, 2014
Contents Add an Image to your ArcMap Layout ...................................................................................................... 2
Add a File to your ArcMap Layout ............................................................................................................ 3
Add an Image to your ArcMap Layout
1. Use the View menu to switch to layout
view if your map is currently in data view
Example layout of Administration Building parcel
with a few other layers
2. Choose Picture from the insert menu
3. Navigate to the image that you would like
to import & click Open
4. Resize and reposition your image as needed
5. (Optional) right-click to open properties to view and modify some of the picture properties.
Add a File to your ArcMap Layout
In addition to images, you can also create tables to include in your layout and/or import certain file
types including power point slides, excel worksheets and charts, paint images, and many more.
1. Use the View menu to switch to layout
view if your map is currently in data
view
Example layout of Administration Building parcel with
a few other layers
2. Choose Object from the insert menu
3. Choose the type of object that you will
import or create:
• Adobe Acrobat document
• Microsoft
o Equation 3.0
o Excel chart or worksheet
o Graph chart
o Power point slides
o Word
• Open document
o Presentation
o Text
o Spreadsheet
• Package
• Paintbrush picture
• WordPad document
4. Use the radio buttons to specify whether you will create a new object or create one from an
existing document, worksheet, etc…
To Create from file:
1. Choose this option from the radio
buttons
2. Browse to the file you will be adding to
your map layout
3. (optional) click on the Link button if
you wish to retain a link to the original
file
4. Click OK
In this example, we will opt to link the inserted table
and the original excel worksheet. If the original file is
modified, the changes will be reflected in the map.
5. Resize and reposition the object within
your map layout as needed
6. Right-click to open the object
properties if you wish to change the
background color, add a frame, etc.
7. Double-click to open the file & to make
changes to it if needed.
If you opted to link the map layout object to
the original file, modifications to the original
will be reflected in the map layout as well.
To sync your map object with the original
document/file, double-click to open the
current version of the file that you imported
and then close the file. Your map object
should now display the current version.
Alternately, you can make edits in the window
that appears. Saved changes to the table in
this window will also be applied to the original
table.
To Create New:
1. Choose Create New from the radio
button options
2. Choose a type from the list provided
3. Click OK
4. Create your object, in this case a
power point slide
5. Close the document to add this new
content to your map layout
6. Reposition and resize your new map
object
7. Right-click to open the object
properties if you wish to change the
background color, add a frame, etc.
8. Double-click to open the file & to make
changes to it if needed.