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Old November 14th 04, 07:32 PM
VHarris001
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Bill Starbuck wrote:
Your description does not include evidence that any ASCii code is
transmitted to your computer. What the web site sends and your
computer receives may be only graphics data.


I should have made clear that the GIS program is installed on my local hard
drive, and the data is read from my local CD drive -- so accessing the actual
data (stored in .dbf file format) is not a problem.

The problem is that the GIS program displays a map and allows me to select
properties in walk-order simply by dragging a line over all the properties.
The program then displays a data table of the addresses of the properties in
that walk-order.

I'm pretty sure that the screen is displaying text in the table because I can
highlight any field and copy and paste it as text. When I click on the heading
of a column, the entire column will highlight, but when I try copy and paste,
only the first data point will paste. There seems to be no way to copy and
paste an entire column (just one column from the display is all I need).

So what I need to be able to do is grab the data from that one column in the
order it is being displayed on screen. It seems a shame to have to capture the
screen as bmp then use OCR to change it back to text. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

V Harris