topic Is it possible to plot polygon features with X Y coordinate data in an excel sheet? in ArcGIS for Office Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881501#M288 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am new to ArcGIS for Office and I am trying to add a polygon to a map using the coordinate data in the excel sheet as the vertices on the polygon. Is this possible? Thank for your help.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:07:30 GMT DouglasLecker 2016-09-12T15:07:30Z Is it possible to plot polygon features with X Y coordinate data in an excel sheet? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881501#M288 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am new to ArcGIS for Office and I am trying to add a polygon to a map using the coordinate data in the excel sheet as the vertices on the polygon. Is this possible? Thank for your help.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:07:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881501#M288 DouglasLecker 2016-09-12T15:07:30Z Re: Is it possible to plot polygon features with X Y coordinate data in an excel sheet? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881502#M289 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Douglas,&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>It's not possible to make a polygon in ArcGIS Maps for Office&nbsp;using coordinate data (that I know of). What I would suggest doing would be to create the polygons in ArcMap or in ArcGIS Online and then bring them into ArcGIS Maps for Office and join them to the data based on an ID or common field using&nbsp;a Customer Location Type:&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="https://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-office/design-and-use/add-layers-from-excel.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_6706583439964356838FB4B24F88CE77" title="https://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-office/design-and-use/add-layers-from-excel.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_6706583439964356838FB4B24F88CE77">Add layers from Excel—ArcGIS Maps for Office | ArcGIS</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:46:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881502#M289 CarmelConnolly 2016-09-14T09:46:20Z Re: Is it possible to plot polygon features with X Y coordinate data in an excel sheet? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881503#M290 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you Carmel. I was afraid of that. I will have to find another workaround then.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:35:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-office-questions/is-it-possible-to-plot-polygon-features-with-x-y/m-p/881503#M290 DouglasLecker 2016-10-03T20:35:56Z