Cut out specific area from layer

[JulieDay]

Hi,

I have a shapefile with attributes I'm interested in. I have another shapefile with one polygon, making up the area I'm interested in.

How can I cut out the polygon shape in the second file from the first file? I would like my final image to be the shape of the second file but have all the information of the first file. Some of the polygons within the first shapefile do not fit entirely in the polygon of the second file so I would want for those polygons to be cropped.

I'd be grateful for any pointers.

Thanks

[JoeBorgione]

Clip

Union

Intersect

Select by location

What is geoprocessing?

What is GIS?

These are all topics you may want to check out.

[DanLee]

It seems you only need Clip tool (Analysis toolbox - Extract toolset):
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000800000004000000
- Use the first shape file as the Input Features.
- Use the single polygon as the Clip Features.
The output should be features exactly clipped by the single polygon, with all attributes intack.