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When you are done collecting coordinate points, click the Open Map icon (an open, yellow folder with an arrow), and tap Save Map.  This will save your Shapefile layer and Base layer together as a map document that can be opened and added to later.  You can export individual layers or the entire map document to any laptop by using the SDHC card (if that's where you've saved your layers and map) or ActiveSync.  ArcMap - the GIS software used on the desktop computers - will not open an ArcPad map document, but it will import Layer files created in ArcPad.

Open/Work with an Existing Map Document or Layer

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1. In the Open Map window of ArcPad, click on the open folder icon at the bottom of the screen.
2. The Folder option should be set to All Folders
3. Set the Type option to All Files (.).  All of the files loaded onto the GPS unit, including those stored on the SDHC card should appear.
4. Choose the file you want to use as your Base layer, or the Shapefile or ArcPad map you want to work with.
5. If you have not set a Projection for the Base layer or satellite photo, ArcPad will ask you if you want to assume the Projection is GCS_WGS_1984.  Tap Yes.  Depending upon the size of the map file, it may take a while to load.
6. Continue adding data.

Edit Attributes of Features (Data Points) in a Map Document or Layer

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Attributes are the fields into which you enter data about a Feature/Data Point.  Attributes are the metadata about a Feature/Data Point, and describe all the information you want to collect about a particular Featureit.  Examples of Attributes for a Feature might be LocationName, BuildingType, etc..  Once you've created a Map Layer in ArcPad 8, you can edit the content of Attributes when you are in the field.  If you need to add or subtract fields in a Map Document or Map Layer in ArcPad, you will have to use the desktop version of the software.

Start and Editing Session and Edit Attributes

1. Navigate to the Edit Toolbary toolbar by tapping on the tab at the top of the ArcPad menus that looks like a pencil and some dots connected with lines.
2. Tap on the Start/Stop Editing button, which looks looks like a pencil.  A list of the shapefiles Shapefiles and other Map Layers you're working with will appear. 
3. From the pull-down menu, choose the Map Layer in which you want to edit the content of the Attribute fields. 
4. Tap on the Select button, which looks like a blue arrow.  Both the Start/Stop Editing and Select buttons should be highlighted. 
5. Select the Data Point Feature whose attribute field content you want to edit by double-tapping on it.  The Edit Attributes screen should appear, and the Attribute fields for this Data Point Feature should appeardisplay.
6. Change the information in each of the fields you want to edit.  If the Keyboard disappears and you need to get it back, tap the Keyboard icon in the lower, right-hand side of the Edit Attributes screen.
7. When you are finished, click OK.

End the Editing Session

1. You will be able to edit multiple Attributes for multiple Features (data points).  Once you are finished editing, you must close our your editing session.
2. Tap on the Start/Stop Editing button.  Tap on the Start/Stop Editing button, which looks like a pencil.  A list of the Shapefiles and other Map Layers you're working with will appear, with the Map Layer you've been editing highlighted with a red outline.
3. Tap on the name of the Map Layer you've been editing to deselect it.  The pull down menu will disappear and the Start/Stop Editing and Select buttons should no longer be highlighted.