Newbie needs help with opening shapefiles

[CraigPlath]

I've searched and can't come up with much, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.

I'm trying to open files such as these here:
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/climaps/climaps.pl?directive=order_details&subrnum=&region=Lower%20...

So I've downloaded all of those into a folder, and also renamed the .prj file to match the others.  It opens, but all i see is a very tiny version of the shape.

I don't really know what I'm doing here.  i suspect the issue is with that .prj file, but can someone help me out?  I'm running ArcGIS explorer 2.0.0.1750.

Thanks

[MarkBockenhauer]

Try the attached .prj file.   rename it from .txt to .prj

mark

[CraigPlath]

Thanks, now it's overlayed across the lower 48 as expected.

I was expecting it to show different colors for the different grids, like here:
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/climaps/temp05c.pdf

I realize now I'll probably need to set that formatting, but don't see how exactly.  Is that possible with the Explorer Desktop?  Can someone point me to a tutorial about this?  I can change color for ALL data, but can't seem to specify different colors for different criteria.

I appreciate the help.

[CraigPlath]

Ah, I see.  You create queries, then format the results of the queries.