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=Introduction=
This page contains a brief introduction to the MapInfo software.  A number of MapInfo tasks which are repeatedly used in creating a TUFLOW model are described below, each of these has a separate page. If you have any suggestions to be included in these pages, please add them to the discussion page. [[Talk:MapInfo_Tips | Please add MapInfo Suggestions Here!]].
== MapInfo File Formats==
A number of files with the same name but different extensions make up a MapInfo table.  A brief description of the MapInfo file formats, in particular the MapInfo Interchange (.MIF and .MID) are provided here: [[MapInfo_File_Formats | MapInfo File Formats]].<br>

=Basics=
In this section are some basic MapInfo functions that are regularly used in creating TUFLOW models in MapInfo.
# [[MI_Import_Mif | Import a .MIF/.MID]]
# [[MI_Export_Mif | Export a .MIF/.MID]]
# [[MI_Layer_Control | Layer Control]]
# [[MI_Table_Editing | Editing a Table]]
# [[MI_Increment_Table | Incrementing a Table]]
# [[MI_Change_Table_Structure | Change Data Attributes]]

=Tips and Tricks=
# [[MI_Pack_Table | Pack Table]]
# [[MI_Move_Snapped_Nodes | Move Snapped Nodes]]
# [[MI_Display_Vertices_on_Objects | Display Vertices (Nodes) on Polygons and Lines]]
# [[MI_Setting_Default_Style | Setting Default Style from an Existing Layer]]
# [[MI_Digitising_Common_Boundary | Digitising Along Common Boundary or Object]]
# [[MI_Hotlinking | Hotlinking (Open Data in external program)]]
# [[MI_Setting_Number_of_Undo_Objects | Setting the Number of Undo Objects]]
# [[MI_Label_Format_Number | Labelling Numbers using Fixed Number of Decimal Places]]
# [[MI_Selecting_Subsets | Selecting Subsets]]
# [[MI_Concatenating_Labels | Concatenating Labels]]
# [[MI_Using_String Functions | Using MapInfo String Functions]]
# [[MI_Joining_Tables | Joining Tables (Updating a table with data from a second table)]]
# [[MI_Find_Info_Window | MapInfo Find Information Window]]
# [[MI_Projection_Shortlist | Create a Projection Shortlist for commonly used projections]]