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I added a shapefile into a new ArcMap 10.4.1 .mxd to check the coordinate system. It says Canada_Lambert_Conformal_Conic as the coordinate system.
When I do the mouse-over, the decimal degrees in the bottom right do not change. It just stays at this number:
How come the decimal degrees do not change when I move the mouse?
The easiest way is to go to the TOC table of contents...
right click the data frame (usually named layers).
Select properties. and the coordinate system tab.
then find the gcs system you would like to have as the final output
set the "document " to that by OK'ing out of the dialogs.
Then when you right click on the layer you want re-projected and select >Data
export data.
You get the export dialog.
Select the "same as data frame" option..
Give it a location and you are done.
In step two select wgs84 or epsg:4326 which is what the projection of the data is. QGis can then reproject them to the output projection. You are telling QGis that the data is in UTM so it doesn't bother to reproject them for you.
Best Answer
Most likely, the coordinates are changing but you can't see them changing because you're zoomed in pretty far and the change is small enough that it doesn't register in the coordinate display. You can change that by setting your data view to show more decimal places in the coordinate display under Customize > ArcMap Options. Change this number to 6 or 8:
If increasing the number of decimal places in the display bar doesn't really help plus the data appears to no be in the correct location relative to other data layers, check whether the data layer has the correct coordinate system. A data layer that should be using a geographic coordinate reference system, latitude-longitude, with values in decimal degrees, will act this way if it has a projected coordinate reference system assigned/defined.