[GIS] Copy selected features to another feature class

Question

I had two polyline feture classes representing the same objects that I spatially joined together to reconsile/consolidate data about. At the time I was directed to remove some features from the joined feature class because they were not of interest at that point. Subsiquently they now are and I want to bring them from one of the original layers into the joined layer. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

If it's only a few features and the attribute fields are the same in both layers, it might be simplest to start an edit session on both layers and just do a copy and paste.

If there are many features or uncommon attribute fields, the Append geoprocessing tool would be more suitable.