Thank you all for your help with my Problem, especially Joe Miller with the
Projector! extension. My original problem is at the end. My solution was to
use the Projector! extension. Here's the step by step of what I did for
dense people like me. I hope this helps others with similar dilemmas to what
I had.

1. Opened the themes I needed to change. Went to View-->Properties, and
changed Map Units to Meters(because I was changing it using a UTM
projection), Distance Units to Unknown.

2. Clicked on the Projector! Button. It asked for Input Projection, I put in
UTM 83, Zone 13 (what my DOQ's are). Output Projection, I selected Decimal
Degrees.

3. I followed the rest of the directions and the output file was in
Lat,Long. I was then able to project the view and everything lined up!!

Thank you to those who offered help and solutions!!

Eric Gakstatter: "The best solution is to get your CAD data in a standard
map projection instead of trying to fit your data to it. It is a pretty
common problem. The way to go about it depends on what accuracy you want the
CAD data to maintain. If you can find points in the CAD file that you also
took GPS points on, then you can reproject your CAD data based on the GPS
data...or I've also used DIQs to reproject CAD data, but the accurayc is not
as good."

Joe Miller: "My approach would be to use the Projector! (yes, the name
includes the Exclamation point) extension which can be found on the ESRI
website and which I attach to this message.  Try re-projecting the
shapefiles with this extension and see if they line up properly."

Margaret Gooding: "You need to project the individual shape files.
Projecting the view will not work in this case. You need to know what
projection and datum the original files were based on. Then check the
projection extension in ArcView 3.2 and use the projection wizard to project
your files. I have done this and it works well."

John MacNaughton: "You will have to project everything into the same
projection,  You will have to define all your projections properly first,
then you will need to "project" them all into a common projection. In 8.1
use the toolbox to do this.  In 3.2 you will need to download some
projection tools."




Original email: I have a problem that I hope you can help me solve. I've got
some shapefiles based on a CAD file that overlay a DOQ when it ISN'T
projected. I now have GPS files that the DOQ MUST be projected for them to
line up. Is there a way to convert the shapefiles so that they will lie
ontop of the DOQ when it is projected? I've tried changing the files into
DXF's and than using a worldfile to place them with the GPS points. When I
do that they show up when I project the View, but are crooked or totally off
in the proportions. If a worldfile allowed three points, it would work, but
unfortuanetly I haven't found a way for that yet.



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