Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 372)

3. In the Formats Gallery, select the format for the data you wish to open and click OK.
To obtain a free trial of the FME Suite and add more formats to this list, click More Formats.
Personal Geodatabase and ArcSDE always display in the Formats Gallery but they may be
grayed out if you do not have the appropriate client DLL or applications installed. See Setting Note:
the ArcSDE Data Options and Setting the ESRI Personal Geodatabase Data Options in the
Help System for these details.
4. In the Specify Data Source dialog box, click Open file browser beside the Dataset field.
A dataset is defined as a set of data in the same format.
5. In the Select File dialog box, locate and select the data file. If you do not see your data in the list,
then select All Files (*.*) from the Files of type list. After making your selection, click Open.
The Specify Data Source dialog box refreshes with your selection. If the Dataset field remains
blank, then check that you are selecting data that matches the format in the Format field.
6. To open a directory of data in the Specify Data Source dialog box, click Open advanced browser
+ button beside the Dataset field.
The Select File dialog box opens and you can select:
• Directory-based formats by clicking Add Directories and browsing for a specific directory name.
Check the Subdirectories check box to include all subfolders below that directory. Click OK. The
new data appends to the original data.
When adding a directory, MapInfo Professional opens all of the data of the specified format it finds
in the directory. If you select the Subdirectories check box, MapInfo Professional opens all of the
data with the specified format in the subdirectories. The data is merged together when you open
it.
• File-based formats by clicking Add Files and browsing for a specific file name. To select multiple
files, press Ctrl while making your selections. Click OK.
Select the Identical Schemas check box if the files have the same schema.
Click OK to close the Select File dialog box.
7. Optionally, click Parameters to set how to handle the output format. This is how you set the display
settings for your data.
8. If the coordinate system for your data selection is unknown, then click Open the coordinate system
gallery beside the field to select the projection. If you do not specify the coordinate system,
you will be prompted to do so later.
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