In the Area Neighbors window, do any of the following:
To perform an analysis using only the selected records, enable the Find neighbors to selected input areas only check box.
To report which shapes border the selected shapes, enable the Adjacent to the input areas option.
To include a region outside the boundary of the digitized areas on the layer, enable the Report outside area in result check box. This represents the global polygon or outside area, which appears as -1 in the Attribute Manager.
To report in separate records the results of a shape that borders another shape in different places (not available for thematic rasters), enable the Report neighbor B as two records in result check box. For example, the perimeter of shape B touches shape A in two places so you obtain two records for shape B.
To report only the shapes that completely surround another shape (for example, lakes containing islands), enable the Input areas surround option.
To report shapes that are surrounded by other shapes (for example, islands), click Input areas are surrounded by option.
In the Input Areas column, enable the check mark next to the layer attributes that you want to add to the Area Neighbors table.
In the Neighbors column, enable the check box next to the layer attributes that you want to add to the Area Neighbors table.
If you want to select the records in the Attribute Manager that correspond to the results, enable the Select found neighbors option.