Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional - Manual (Page 55)

The Help System contains these related topics:
• Opening Multiple Workspaces
• Reading Labels from a MapInfo Workspace File (MWS)
• Limitations opening a MWS Format Workspace
• About Writing Label Overrides to a MapInfo Workspace File (MWS)
• About Reading/Writing Translucency Settings for a Workspace File (MWS)
How Renaming Tables Affects Workspaces
When you change the name of a table listed in a workspace, you invalidate the workspace. Table names
are stored in the workspace file, so if change it, the workspace cannot find it.
For example, if you create a workspace called CUSTOMER.WOR that contains the STATES table. If
you later rename the STATES table to AMERICA, MapInfo Professional will not be able to open the
CUSTOMER.WOR workspace. It will try to open the STATES table and not be able to locate it.
There are three ways to avoid this problem:
• Make any table name changes before you start to build workspaces.
• Open the workspace file in any text editor and manually change the table names.
• Open a workspace. Rename the table(s) using the Rename Table dialog box and immediately save
the workspace.
Saving Printer Information to a Workspace
MapInfo Professional enables you to save your printer information to a workspace, and restore printer
information from a workspace. These settings are located in the Startup preferences (on the Options
menu, point to Preferences, and click Startup). To save printer information to a workspace, check the
Save Printer Information to Workspaces check box. Subsequently, when you save your workspace,
the printer name, paper orientation, paper size, and the number of copies are saved. When this preference
is on, the printer settings are saved in a workspace file.
We recommend that you leave this preference on. Note:
To restore printer information from a workspace, check the Restore Printer Information to Workspaces
box. When you open the workspace, the printer name, paper orientation, paper size, and the number of
copies are restored. This is useful if you are sharing workspaces with other MapInfo Professional 6.0 or
later users who are also using the same printers. You may want to leave it off if you want to send the
workspace to someone who is using a different printer. If this preference is turned off, MapInfo Professional
uses the default printer selected in the Printer preferences.
You can get additional printer advice in the MapInfo Professional Printing Guide, which is located
in the Documentation subfolder of your installation directory. Note:
Reviewing the Windows in MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional allows you to display your data in many different windows and with different views
at the same time. For instance, you can display the WORLD table of country boundaries in a Map window
to view the geographic boundaries. At the same time you can display the tabular data of the WORLD
table in a Browser window to see the country names, population, and other data in the file. If you make
a change in either window, it is reflected in the other.
Only one view can be active at a time. To make a different window active, click its title bar. Notice that
the menu bar changes depending on which window is active. For instance, when you are working in a
Map window when you also have a Browser open, only the Map menu is available on the menu bar.
Make the Browser active. The Browse menu replaces the Map menu.
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Chapter 3: The Basics of MapInfo Professional