Saving Styles for formating points, lines and polygons

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03-07-2016 02:33 AM
IainStuart
Occasional Contributor

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

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JakeSkinner
Esri Esteemed Contributor

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

AdrianWelsh
MVP Honored Contributor

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).

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IainStuart
Occasional Contributor

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

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