There are a couple of ways you can emphasize just one region in a map or layout, and yes, you'll be using selection sets.
If you just want to "white out" all the counties except one, change the layer style for the Counties layer to have a solid white fill, then change the fill style of your selection set to "None". Note that this will only fill in the areas with the selected color; you may need to change your layer order to get it to cover up other layers. Also, if your Counties layer has a border style selected, that will appear even for the "blanked-out" counties. Another approach (and this is what is frequently used in the tutorials) is to create a new geographic file that contains only the areas you're working in. For example, if you were planning on making a number of maps focusing on the state of Kentucky and wanted a "Counties" layer that only included the counties in Kentucky, you would: 1. Open the geographic file you want to work with (for example, ccCounty.cdf) 2. Select the areas that you want to include (all the counties in Kentucky) 3. From the Tools menu, choose Export... (the first drop-down, "Export", should have "Selection" as your choice) 4. Click OK and choose a name to save your new geographic file (for example, you could call it KentuckyCounties.cdf). When you open KentuckyCounties.cdf, you'll only see those counties that were in your selection set. If you're frequently working within a single region, making a local version of each of the geographic files you use will save you lots of time and hassle in the future. HTH -- Keiran --- In [email protected], "mdkarkowsky" <mdkarkowsky@...> wrote: > > Hi, > Novice question. > All the maps in the tutorial book have this nice way of giving detail to the > area being analyzed while giving blank solid color to everything surrounding. > Its like putting your county on a blank background. I can't figure out how to > do that (with selection tools?), and can't seem to find the right page in the > help guide. I guess its so obvious even a novice should know how to do it. > Thanks for any help > MK > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
