Sometimes you need to navigate directly to an input location. You can type x,y coordinates in the Go To XY tool and navigate to it directly. A list of supported units also allows you to change the coordinate format being used on the fly.
On the Globe tab, in the Navigate group, click the Go To XY button 
to display the moveable overlay in the view. Click the Go To XY button again to remove the overlay.
You can do the following with the Go To XY tool:
- Input coordinates by typing them directly or pasting from another source.
- Enter coordinates in the default units of the globe's projection or in one of six predefined unit formats.
- Visually identify the location by clicking Flash
. - Navigate to the location by clicking Pan
. - Minimize the overlay to take up less on-screen space when you are not using it, but you don't want to completely remove it from the display.
Guidelines for specifying coordinates with the Go To XY command
You can specify the location as a longitude-latitude coordinate pair, a Military Grid Reference System grid location, a Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate, or a U.S. National Grid location. Click the Specify the location unit format drop-down arrow to select the units to use for coordinates.
- Remember that x is longitude (east/west), and y is latitude (north/south)—enter the coordinates in the same order in which coordinates are listed in the globe status bar. Spherical coordinates aren't always specified in this order, so make sure you verify the correct order on this dialog box. For example, if someone asks you to plot 17.1325, -60.666 on the globe, ask them if these coordinates are in longitude-latitude or latitude-longitude order. The only way to tell the order from the coordinates is if they contain E, W, N, S characters to signify the hemisphere.
- When you're using decimal degrees (DD), degrees decimal minutes (DM), or degrees minutes seconds (DMS), you can enter coordinates using a minus sign before the numeric value to signify the western or southern quadrants or using E, W, N, S characters before or after the numeric values.
- You can separate values in DM and DMS coordinates with spaces or the °, ', " special characters (such as when you paste coordinates that you have copied from other dialog boxes or applications that use those characters) or both.