Latest Contributions by LauraBates

When symbolising quantities, and classifying using the manual method, you can't change the number of classes. The classes box is greyed out, so you can't click on it, and so is the right click option to insert a break. If you need another class the only way i have found is to change the method (wiping all the breaks you have manually set), change the classes and then change it back to manual. Can we please have an option to add classes for this method? ... View more

When you have rediculously long field lengths, one field can take up the entire screen. It would be great if there was some way to autofit all the columns at once, to the size of the data within them. ... View more

When you click "New Model" Arc will automatically save a blank model, named "Model" in your toolbox. This would be fine if it deleted when you "Save As", but it doesn't. Instead, how about the first time you hit "Save" in your new model, it prompts you to "Save As"? This would save deleting tonnes of blank models that I never wanted there in the first place. Of course, being able to "Save As" at all is a nice change. ... View more

It would be great if we could calculate the bearing of a line into a field through the 'Calculate Geometry' function (or even a field calculator script?) in the attribute table. The only way I have found to do this is through the 'Spatial Statistics' - 'Measuring Geographic Distributions' - 'Linear Directional Mean' tool, which is a bit convoluted for something that seems so logical to need. That particular tool doesn't even come up when you search for tools related to "bearing". ... View more