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Currently I have a polygon layer made up of three shapes. All the shapes are listed in the attribute table. One of these three shapes intersects a point. I would like to select just the shape that has an intersection of that point.

I am guessing I use the select tool with a piece of code to select the correct shape?

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Daniel

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    Have you tried using 'select by Location?' resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//… It is one of the most fundamental tools in ArcMap.
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This was literally my second task when I was taught the use of ArcGIS Desktop. The 'Select by Location' tool is to be used for this purposes.

You should add the featureclasses of both the polygon & the point in ArcMap. Once that is done, Go to Selections>>Select By Location and select your polygon layer as the target and the points as your source layer. You can use 'intersect' as the operation.

This is a screenshot of the dialog box in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1. The dialog for 10.0 and onwards is quite similar.:

Image from 9.3.1

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