Tables display the attributes of data sets . Charts are visual displays of selected attributes of data sets . Layouts are composites of views , tables , charts , legend material and title text. Scripts provide a way to modify the standard ArcView interface.
Projects contain related views , tables , charts , layouts , and scripts .
You can think of it as a manila folder. To the user, opening a 'project' is like opening a file in any other application. The project file contains the instructions necessary for ArcView to recreate saved views, plots or charts of the data when the project is opened. In metadata parlance, these two types of data have 'Direct Spatial Reference' and 'Indirect Spatial Reference,' respectively. The geometric information may describe points, lines, polygons, or grid data.