CPS/Toolkit/ArcGIS Helpful Hints

This Webpage contains documents and other support tools to help you with Conservation Practice Standard Narratives, Toolkit, and ArcGIS.

The National Toolkit Site contains National Toolkit 2004 documents, Net Conference Recordings, and PowerPoint Presentations to help you learn Toolkit 2004.

The following documents require Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.

Conservation Practice Standards (CPS) Narratives

• Add, Edit, or Delete Narratives (DOC; 708 KB)
• Copy Narratives (DOC; 814 KB)
• Print Hard Copy of Narratives (DOC; 702 KB)

Toolkit/ArcGIS Helpful Hints

• Getting Started Step by Step (DOC; 32.5 KB)
• Starting Toolkit 2004 - Creating Icon on Your Desktop (DOC; 502 KB)
• Water Quality Risk Assessment Map Instruction Guide (DOC; 3MB)
• ArcGIS Basic Instruction Guide (Helpful Hint 1) (DOC; 1.18 MB)
• ArcGIS GPS Download/Upload (Helpful Hint 2) (DOC; 51 KB)
• Users Guide (Helpful Hint 3) (DOC; 2.7 MB)
• Copy Paste Function (Helpful Hint 4) (DOC; 370 KB)
• Importing Structural Practices into ArcMap/CST2004 (Helpful Hint 5) (DOC; 3 MB)
• Labeling Soil Layers (Helpful Hint 6) (DOC; 482 KB)
• Disappearing Map Labels when Converted to Annotation and Setting Label Reference Scales (Helpful Hint 7)  (DOC; 3.95 MB)
• Creating a SD-CPA-2 Substitute Plat Map in CST (Helpful Hint 8) (DOC; 271 KB)
• Labeling CIN Numbers on Practices (Helpful Hint 9) (DOC; 1 MB)
• Adding Selection Tab to Projects (Helpful Hint 10) (DOC; 983 KB)
• Repathing Imagery (Helpful Hint 11) (DOC; 837 KB)
• HEL Tool Step-by-Step Guide (Helpful Hint 12) (DOC; 1.35 MB)
• Using Digitized Shortcuts (Helpful Hint 13) (DOC; 1.89 MB)
• Bringing in Tabular GPS Coordinates Using MN DNR Garmin Software into ArcGIS (Helpful Hint 14) (DOC; 237 KB)
• Soils Button Planning Tool Problem (Helpful Hint 15) (DOC; 327 KB)
• Adding a Missing Toolkit Toolbar Back into a Project (Helpful Hint 16) (DOC; 1.3 MB)
• Creating and Adding Text into Existing Annotation Groups (Helpful Hint 17) (PDF; 227 KB)
• How to Use DNR Garmin Outside of Toolkit 2004 (PDF; 5.7 MB)
• Truncated Narratives Work Around (DOC; 518 KB) 
• Creating Halos Around Symbols (Helpful Hint 18) (PDF; 482 KB)
• Adding Weather Zone Data (Helpful Hint 19) (DOC; 215 KB)

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