Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 136)

Creating a New Table
You can bring in data tables from several outside sources: dBASE, Excel, Access, Lotus 1-2-3, shapefiles,
Grid, comma delimited, and delimited ASCII. You can also create your own database directly in MapInfo
Professional. These databases can be opened and displayed as maps (providing they contain graphic
objects), Browsers, or graphs.
To create a table in MapInfo Professional:
1. On the File menu, click New Table. The New Table dialog box displays.
2. Choose one or more from the following:
• Open New Browser - Click this check box to display the new buffer in a new Browser window
only.
• Open New Mapper - Click this check box to display the new buffer in a new Map window.
• Add to Current Mapper - Click this check box to display the new buffer in the current Map window.
3. Do one of the following and click OK:
• To create a new table and new table structure, click Create New.
• To create a new table based on the structure of an existing table, click Using Table and select
from the list of open tables.
4. Choose OK. The New Table Structure dialog box displays.
If you selected Create New, this dialog is empty. You can remove a field by highlighting it and clicking
the Remove Field button.
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