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Getting Started with ArcGIS for Excel

Are you a Microsoft Excel power user and want to bring ArcGIS mapping capabilities into your worksheets? This GeoSnap introduces you to ArcGIS for Excel, a Microsoft 365 add-in designed to allow you to create interactive maps from your Excel data in a few seconds. We will show you how to install the add-in, then demonstrate how you can make a map within an Excel spreadsheet, even without an ArcGIS subscription account. 

Learn more about the ArcGIS for Excel add-in, check out the Esri documentation:https://doc.arcgis.com/en/microsoft-365/latest/excel/get-started-with-arcgis-for-excel.htm  

0:00 – Intro 
0:17Install the ArcGIS for Excel add-in to your Microsoft Excel worksheet 
0:50Sign into the add-in as a guest (not with an ArcGIS account) to show the mapping capabilities for Standard users
1:05 – Add Excel tabular content as X,Y points on a map as a layer using longitude and latitude values
1:40 – Integrate online content layers into the map from ArcGIS content and the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World  
2:03Change the symbols of our X,Y data layer  

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