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IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE A TEXT IN A TEXT BOX OR A RECTANGLE (IN THE DRAW TOOLBAR) AND THEN EXPORT IT TO EXCELL AS IF IT WERE DATA?

You could certainly code to export the values in the textbox using the objShape.text property, but as for already easy in Mappoint, I don't think you can do this.

WHAT DO MEAN BY CODE TO EXPORT AND WHAT IS OBJSHAPE.TEXT? I HEARD ABOUT THIS BEFORE BUT NEVER KNEW WHAT IT WAS.

I'M PRETTY SURE ITS C CODE, I'VE TAKEN A CLASS IN IT, BUT I'M NO EXPERT

jdwhyte is referring to the object model. This is covered in the help documentation in MapPoint.
Most people access it using Visual Basic.

Anything that supports COM (eg. C++) should work - personally I use C++.

If you're looking to hire someone to export all text boxes to a file for import into Excel, I (or someone else on this forum) could be hired to do it...


Richard

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THANKS ALOT, AND THANKS FOR THE OFFER, BUT I'LL TRY TO DO IT ON MY OWN, I'M MORE OF A DO IT YOURMYSELF TYPE OF PERSON. hOWEVER, I'M NOW WONDERING, IF I AM ABLE TO IMPORT THE TEXT FILES INTO EXCEL, WILL I BE ABLE TO EXPORT THEM BACK IF ANY CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE?

Yes, you can import the data in an excel spreadsheet into Mappoint