How to Interactive Selection in ArcMap?

Selecting features allows you to identify or work with a subset of features on your map. You'll most likely work with selected features when you are querying, exploring, analyzing, or editing data. Applying a selection lets you specify the features you want to calculate statistics for, view attributes for, or edit or define the set of features that comprise a map layer.

nteractive feature selection involves digitizing a shape to select a set of features that overlap the shape. Before you begin to select features, do the following:

1. Set the list of selectable layers. You can set and manage the list of selectable layers in the table of contents List By Selection view.
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   Select features that are completely contained by the selection shape.