The Map Operation group on the Layout tab organizes tools for navigating the map in a layout, including features such as Lock and Unlock Map, Zoom Out, Pan, Map Full View, and Refresh.

Lock Map

Used to lock a map in Layout. After the map is locked, the user can perform various browsing operations on the map in Layout without changing other layout elements.

• Select a map in Layout and click the Lock Map button in the Map Operation group on the Layout tab. The currently selected map is locked, and the Other Map Browsing buttons in the Map Operation "group are available. You can perform various Map Browsing operations on a locked map in Layout.
• When the map is locked, click this button to unlock the map, and the map cannot be browsed any more.

Zoom In

Click the Zoom In button in the Map Operation group on the Layout tab, and the Operation Status of the Locked Map in the current Layout changes to the status in which the map is zoomed in.

Use to zoom in on a locked map in the current Layout.

• Click to enlarge: Click the mouse within the frame of the locked map, and the map will be enlarged and displayed with the position clicked by the mouse as the center point, and the magnification is 2 times.
• Select and enlarge the rectangular box: Click and hold the left mouse button within the frame of the locked map, and drag the mouse along the diagonal line to see a temporary rectangular box, the size of which changes with Move Stop by Mouse. Release the mouse in place Left click to Zoom In the range determined by the temporary rectangular area. The magnified Display Effects are: the center point of the temporary rectangle is the center point of the magnified display of the map, and the magnification factor is the smaller one of the ratios of the width and height of the minimum Bounds of the Current Map frame to the width and height of the temporary rectangle.

Zoom Out

Lets you zoom out to browse a locked map in the current Layout.

Click the Zoom Out button in the Map Operation group on the Layout tab, and the Operation Status of the Locked Map in the current Layout changes to the Zoom out map status.

• Click to zoom out: Click the mouse within the frame of the locked map, and the map will be zoomed out with the mouse click position as the center point, and the zoom out multiple is 2.
• Rectangular box selection reduction: Click and hold the left mouse button within the frame of the locked map, and drag the mouse along the diagonal line to see a temporary rectangular box whose size changes with Move Stop by Mouse. Release the mouse in place Left click to Zoom Out the range determined by the temporary rectangular area. The Display Effects after zooming out is that the center point of the temporary rectangle is the center point of the Zoom out of the map, and the reduction factor is the smaller value of the ratios of the width and height of the minimum Bounds of the Current Map frame to the width and height of the temporary rectangle.

Free Zoom

The ability to zoom in or out on any map that is locked in the layout.

Click the Free Zoom button in the Map Operation group on the Layout tab, currently The Operation Status of the locked map in Layout becomes Free Zoom.

• Click the mouse within the frame of the locked map and drag to zoom in or Zoom Out; release the left mouse button to stop the Free Zoom operation and refresh the map once.
• Because the map is not refreshed in real time during the process of holding down the left mouse button Free Zoom map, a blank map section will appear in the map frame. The map will not be refreshed until the Free Zoom operation is stopped by releasing the left mouse button.

Full View

Used for maps that are locked in the current Full View Layout.

On the Layout tab,
• click the Full View button in the Map Operation group, and the map locked in the current Layout changes to Full View, that is, the map locked in the current Layout is scaled according to the size of its border. Displays the map fully and maximized in the current frame.

Refresh

Used to refresh the map that is locked in the current Layout.

• Click the Refresh button in the Map Operation group on the Layout tab to update the contents of a map that is locked in the current Layout.

Pan

The Pan button provides the function of continuously panning the locked Map Browsing map contents in the current Layout.

Click the Pan button in the Map Operation group in the Layout tab, and the Operation Status in the current Layout becomes a roaming status.

Within the frame of the
• locked map, click and hold the left mouse button to drag, and the map in Layout will be translated in the direction of the mouse drag. Release the left mouse button to stop the panning operation, and the map will be refreshed once.
• Because the map is not refreshed in real time during the process of panning the map by holding down the left mouse button, a blank map section will appear in the map frame. The map will not refresh until you release the left mouse button to stop the panning operation.