Hi,
Another way is to select all the counties you _do not_ want to show on
the map (easily acquired by Selection->Combine selection->By->Choosing
features not in) and then Changing the Status of the Not selection to
Invisible (on Selection Settings).
Cheers,
Reinaldo
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furyqba wrote:
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] <mailto:Maptitude%40yahoogroups.com>,
"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
>
