I also got the impression at the What's new in 10 event hosted by ESRI that you could group multiple figures into one file. In my group we use ArcMap to make all of our figures for groundwater modeling reports. When we are done we can have 35 .mxd files in our project folder. After one of my coworkers mentioned it at a meeting yesterday (works in a different group) I decided to check it out. I was very disappointed to learn that this multiple feature created a grid of the map area and created maps for each section of the grid. We have no use for that at all. Also at the Whats new in 10 event the ESRI people said they watched users to come up with this new version. You really need to watch members of my unit because a lot of the changes we have found so far either don't help us or make things harder. We don't digitize streets and roads and sewer lines. We don't care about topology. We use ArcMap for data analysis and figure making. I agree 100% I would really like to be able to have one document and be able to set up layouts in multiple sizes for reports to construction plans. I have not spent much time with python but does anyone know if you can accomplish this with that program.
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