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Saving Styles for formating points, lines and polygons

IainStuart — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:33:47 GMT

I have recently upgraded to ArcGIS 10.4 and seem to have lost all my personalized symbols for points, lines and polygons. They reappear in old ArcGIS10.3 maps when I open them so they must be somewhere but when I open a new ArcGIS 10.4 map they are missing. Is there some way of saving them, as a group as a template or style sheet that I can simply upload in ArcGIS 10.4?

Iain

Re: Saving Styles for formating points, lines and polygons

JakeSkinner — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 13:33:50 GMT

Hi Lain,

You can create a new style in 10.3 and save all of your custom symbology there. Then, you can copy the .style file over to your 10.4 instance.

Creating a new style—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Re: Saving Styles for formating points, lines and polygons

AdrianWelsh — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:07:28 GMT

To build on what Jake has said, have you opened your existing MXDs from 10.3? They should keep the same symbology that you established with your project (at least I would hope that would happen after upgrading to 10.4).

Re: Saving Styles for formating points, lines and polygons

IainStuart — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:11:17 GMT

Thanks for your responses - I ended finding the location of the files in the folder for ArcGIS 10.3 and copying to the same folder for ArcGIS10.4 which seems to have worked.

Iain