Consistent Colors/Symbology in ArcMap

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12-01-2016 01:59 PM
AnnH
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New Contributor II

Hi Guys,

I am wanting to keep the colors consistent for multiple layers. I have a point layer, a line layer, and polygon layer. There are unique individuals, of which have a point, line, and a polygon. Therefore, I want the color of the point, line, and polygon to be same for the unique individual. Is there an easy or straight forward way to do this, as I have 100s of individuals and do not want to manually assign the same color three times.

Thank you all for your help!!

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DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

if the classifications are the same, then choose your color scheme and save your prefered symbology to a layer (*.lyr) which you can load and reuse with similar data values and ranges.  Barring that, get your rgb values and use those.

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AnnH
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New Contributor II

I apologize for my limited knowledge, but how do you save symbology in a way that can be loaded to other layers? Thank you for your help!

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DanPatterson_Retired
MVP Emeritus

some links

Save To Layer File—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 

Importing symbology from another layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 

And your general symbology stuff in the help topic on the appropriate symbols to use for a given data type etc.

A quick tour of displaying layers—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 

good luck