Show Tables in Drawing Order view of TOC

AdamForknall

It's often necessary to work with the Drawing Order view of the Table of Contents, while also working with tables. Tables in a map document should be listed at the bottom of the TOC regardless of which view is shown.

RichardFairhurst

Standalone Tables are not treated with much respect in ArcGIS and many functions that should work on both a Feature Class and a Standalone Table only have options to perform the operation on a Feature Class.  A good example is that copy/paste insertion of records only works on a Feature Cass, despite the fact that Standalone Table records would greatly benefit from this same functionality and this behavior is supported for Tables in databases like Access.

Over 75% of my time is spent accessing and manipulating data through Tableviews, whether I am using a Feature Class or a Standalone Table.  Standalone Tables are vital to Linear Referencing and many other applications, but ESRI pays far too little attention to them in the Desktop application.  That needs to change and this idea would be one step in the right direction.