Publishing Maps to Use in PowerPoint

Publishing Your Map To ArcGIS Online

The ArcGIS Maps for Office app enables you to share your layers and maps with others in or outside of your organization through ArcGIS. When you share a map in Excel, a web map is created on ArcGIS. This published map can be viewed in a browser and you can work on it in ArcGIS Online or Desktop like any other ArcGIS map. This process allows you to add a dynamic, interactive map to a PowerPoint slide. You can also publish individual layers from your map as geospatial datasets.

Note that publishing a layer as a feature service will not include the other data in your map. Publishing your map will automatically publish each of your layers as a feature service that will be available to you and anyone you give permissions.

• 1. On the ArcGIS Maps ribbon, click Share Map .

  2. Enter a title for you map, Earthquakes, 2014-present (***). Enter your initials instead of the asterisks.

  3. Add tags to the map: earthquake, magnitude

  4. Enter a description for the map: Earthquake locations and magnitudes, from January 1, 2014 to present.

  5. Check the box to share with Clemson University.

  6. Click on Share Map.

  7. Press the link at the bottom of the Map Contents pane to view the published map.

Note: You can update the map and republish it to ArcGIS by pressing Update shared map under the Tools menu and modifying the information you entered as needed.

Adding Maps to PowerPoint

The Maps for Office add-in provides two ways for exporting your map to PowerPoint. The first method creates a static image from your map to use in a PowerPoint presentation, attach in an email, or include in a report. The second method exports your map as a dynamic PowerPoint slide, capturing the interactive functionality for zooming, panning, and selecting data.

• 1. Set your basemap, active layers, size of the map frame, and the zoom level for your map as you would want it to appear as a static image.

• 1. On the ribbon, click on Create Slide (). A new PowerPoint presentation will open with the map as an image. (Or, if PowerPoint is already open, it will be added to a new slide in the presentation).

  2. View your map in the PowerPoint presentation.

  3. Add a new, blank slide to the presentation.

  4. On the ribbon, click on the ArcGIS Maps tab and Sign In using your username and password.

• 1. Click Add Map on the ribbon. The Insert Map dialog opens and shows you the maps you have on your account or in groups to which you belong.

  2. Select the map you created and click Next.

  3. Select the layers you would like to include in the map. For example, select Earthquake Magnitudes (Animated) layer. Click Next.

• 1. Click the plus sign next to the layer name to add it to the map legend. Click Next.

  2. Select the layout you would like to use for the map slide. Click Next.

  3. Set the zoom level and legend position for the slide. Click Insert.

Note that the slide is not interactive unless you are actively in Slide Show mode and the map is activated.

12. Click to enter the Slide Show. Click the lock symbol to unlock the map and make it interactive.