Reprojecting the file won't work because the objects (fault lines) were 
digitised in the wrong projection to begin with. Reprojecting the file 
assumes the objects were initially in the correct position.

________________________________________
Tim Warman
Geologist & GIS Specialist
Richard C. Slade & Associates, Consulting Groundwater Geologists
North Hollywood, CA 91606
(818) 506-0418

-----Original Message-----
From:   Humphrey, Ben [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:57 AM
To:     '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:        RE: MI changing the projection of a table


Why don't you just reproject the digitized file into state plane and save
the table?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Warman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 3:39 PM
> To:   Mapinfo-L (E-mail)
> Subject:      MI changing the projection of a table
>
> Having just digitised a number of fault lines in the wrong projection 
(UTM
>
> NAD27, should have been State Plane feet), I was wondering if there is a
> way to manually change the projection header of a table without changing
> the absolute values of the data, ie. without translating the data into 
the
>
> new projection.
>
> This should allow me to avoid having to re-digitise the fault lines (I
> hope), and I've done the same type of thing with ERMapper files without
> any
> trouble.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> ________________________________________
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> Geologist & GIS Specialist
> Richard C. Slade & Associates, Consulting Groundwater Geologists
> North Hollywood, CA 91606
> (818) 506-0418
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