idea Add resizability to windows in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Add resizability to windows

SharifulIslam — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:39:51 GMT

Hi all involved,

It would be a great if I have ArcMap with windows that is expandable as below image:

See the above picture of Dataframe window that is not expandable in four ways.

In some case I need to expand this window e.g. I need to scroll to see the coordinate system of the three layers in the TOC, I need to see them substantially to compare them if there is any parameter/text different for one of those three layers. If I have window which I can expand upward and downward then comparing would be of great easy and I could grab the subtle change in the projection parameters while toggle selecting the three layers but now I need to copy projection parameters for each layers into notepad and compare them manually!! There so many software that implement this feature to ease the user interaction e.g. eCognition by Trimble as below:

Re: Add resizability to windows

DuncanHornby — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:37:55 GMT

Agree it is very frustrating that some dialogs do not allow you to expand the window, layer properties is another nightmare dialog and it's one which everyone is in and out of. I don't understand why this has never been resolved.

Re: Add resizability to windows - Status changed to: Closed

AubriOtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:54:07 GMT

Closing this as the issue is specific to ArcMap which is no longer being developed. Resizable windows are available in ArcGIS Pro.