Activating right click function

[JakeHearen]

I just hopped on the ArcMap at my new office that I just started at a couple weeks ago and it seems that I have no contextual menu (the right click function). This is only seems to be within the main window; the right click works everywhere else: TOC pane, the menu bars at the top, other programs. It is only when I am in the main window frame trying to right-click on elements that I have no right-click functionality. I have searched through the help, the forums, and external sites.

Does anyone have any ideas for how to turn this function back on again?

[JeffWard]

What context menus are you looking for?

Can you post a screen shot?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Jeff... I moved it to New to GIS given the OP's disclosure and others that are 'new' may have experienced similar issues.

[SepheFox]

I got the impression that it was his job that was new, not him. Well, no biggie.

[TimothyHales]

Thanks Dan Patterson​ for moving this. For future reference, here is a document on Moving Content

[DanPatterson_Retired]

what elements are you trying to get a context menu for?  some elements don't have anything that can be accessed that way.  I normally tell my students​ to try the following to access "stuff"

• left click once... nothing?
• double click ... nothing?
• right-click .... nothing?

not available...try a menu, or extension

[JeffWard]

These are the default context options in the map area:

If you are looking for information regarding features - you would use the identify tool for that.  If you want to be able to move/modify features, you need to be editing the features to allow those context options and you need to use the edit tool.

[SepheFox]

Hey Jake, you might try resetting the normal template by renaming the normal.mxt file to something else. Next time you start ArcMap it wiil create a new normal.mxt, and the tools will revert to defaults.

[JakeHearen]

Unfortunately the problem is on a government system and the security managers won't let me move a screen grab from it to the internet. But to clarify, the issue is that I have no right-click. Some functions I have found menus for but I have not found everything that is available through the right-click function such as grouping elements in the Layout or even the ArcMap properties that you get when right-clicking outside the edge of the product when working in Layout view.

I have tried resetting the template, reinstalling the software, etc. I am currently waiting for my account manager and government technical support rep in Olympia, WA to get back to me to see if they have any input.

Side note: government said I had to move from where I was working in Hawaii back to Washington state, but I myself am not new to GIS. Been doing this going on 5 years. Still plenty to learn of course.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

​For some amusement I searched the web using

"disable right-click" Windows

perhaps you can get a headstart on the IT department and enable it before they arrive...none of the solutions require you to right-click to enable or disable