How to open Excel file on Mapinfo Professional 2015

On this Mapinfo Tutorial, I will show you how to open Microsoft Excel file into Mapinfo Professional. Mapinfo supports various file formats including MS Excel (.xls, .xlsx). We can load this data to Mapinfo for further use. 

For example, we have an Excel file with the following columns: 

As you can see, I have Easting, Northing columns on that file. This column will be used to map the data into Mapinfo as points. 

Steps to open Excel file on Mapinfo Professional

1. Open Mapinfo
2. Go to File | Open
3. Change the "File of Types" to Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
4. Navigate to your Excel file.

To display the data point in Mapinfo, follow these steps below.

Save the above GIF animated image if you want to save them locally for future use. Thank you for coming and I hope this tutorial will be useful for you to learn mapinfo.

Mapinfo Tutorial-Create New Table

I would like to start the tutorial for Mapinfo Professional on this blog by showing how to create a new Table on Mapinfo. Mapinfo uses term "Table" for its files. So, we often called Mapinfo files as Mapinfo Table. Lets start the tutorial by creating a new table. 

Steps to create new Table on Mapinfo Professional

1. Open Mapinfo Professional
2. From File menu click New Table. A window will be open up. Check both Open New Browser and Open New Mapper. 

I will show you the difference between Browser and Mapper later. 

3. Click Create and next we will add some fields to our new table. 

Add some necessary fields to the new table. Don't forget to specify the Type and Width of each fields. 

4. Click Projection to choose the projection for our new Table

5. Select the projection and press OK.
6. Now press Create and specify the directory to save the new Table. After you save the Table, Mapinfo will automatically load or open the new Table. You will see two window opened for you. 

You may watch the following GIF image to see how to create new Mapinfo Table. 

Thank you.

Mapinfo Professional-User Interface introduction for new user

Mapinfo Professional is a great tool for GIS (Geographical Information System). It comes with many tools and features to produce maps with details, and spatial information. But if you are new to Mapinfo, you may need to refresh your mind. Here I will show you the main interface of Mapinfo Professional. I am using Mapinfo Professional 2015.0.1 on Windows 10. 

 The main window of Mapinfo Professional consists of several toolbox. 

• Menu (Located on the top of the main window)
• Toolbar 
• Layer Control
• Map Window

 

The Toolbar can be customised easily. We can turn on and off some toolbox by right click on the Toolbar area.

 For more options, you can open the Mapinfo Preferences via Options | Preferences

You can set many things here such as Units, Output Settings, Styles, Directories and some others. You may need to explore the Mapinfo Professional.