If you are using the free trial version, a dialog box will appear asking you to enter 'Enter

Licence Key' if you have purchased the full version of MapInfo, in which case enter the key and click Update Licence Now. Alternatively, click Cont inue Trial Period. A dialog box will appear inviting you to open either a table or a workspace. For now, click cancel. Take a look at the MapInfo window. MapInfo has a title bar including minimise, restore or maximise, and close butto ns. Below the title bar is the menu bar with the following menus. File: Menu commands which are normally found in the file menu of other appli cations are also found here for MapInfo. Edit: This is also the case for the Edit menu. Tools: The Tools menu is an important feature of MapInfo. It is from here th at you may run programs from MapInfo's programming language, MapBasic (Section F our, Part Three), load new tools, launch the Mapping Wizard Tool, view the Metad ata (data about the data, such as its source) and access the Universal Translato r (Section Three, Part Four). Objects: The Objects menu does not by default have any active items, and is used only for advanced tasks. Query: The Query menu allows the selection of certain entities by a number o f methods (Section Four, Part One). Table: The Table menu allows manipulation of data tables, such as adding new columns (Section Two, Part Three), importing and exporting tables, and geocodin g. Options: The Options menu allows the user to alter aesthetic aspects of thei r maps, such as line and symbol styles. Window: The Window menu is used to create new windows of different types, an d arrange existing windows on the screen. Help: Opens MapInfo's help system. This is a very useful feature, especially its index. Relevant menu items are discussed in the appropriate sections of the tutorial. Other menus may appear on the menu bar during your use of MapInfo. For example, should you create a map window (Section Three, Part One), a Map menu will appear . The main area of the MapInfo window is taken up by the workspace. This area form s a background on which browsers, maps, legends, graphs and layouts may be opene d, each in a new window. Toolbars Below the menu bar is a toolbar which features the following icons, from left to right: New Table: Creates a new MapInfo table, and invites you to browser window or new map window in which to view this. Open: Opens a MapInfo table. Open WMS Table: Opens a sample data table from the MapInfo s for Web Mapping Services. It is necessary to be connected to rder for this to work. Save Table: Saves the table. Print Window: Prints the active window. This may be a map, layout, graph etc. Cut: Cuts the selected object or area Copy: Copies the selected object or area. open either a new server. WMS stand the internet in o legend, browser,

Paste: Pastes objects or areas which have been cut or copied. Undo: Undoes the last action performed, where possible. New Browser: Creates a new browser window. New Mapper: Creates a new map window. New Grapher: Creates a new graph window. New Layout: Creates a new layout window. New Redistricter: Creates a new redistrict window. Help: Another way to open MapInfo's Help system. These buttons duplicate commonly used menu items. MapInfo also has floating toolbars. The Main and Drawing toolbars appear by defa ult when MapInfo is opened. Other toolbars may be added using the Toolbars comma nd in the Options menu (Options > Toolbars). The standard toolbar may be dragged downwards to form a floating toolbar. Floating toolbars may be dragged upwards to sit beneath the menu bar. Main Toolbar The main toolbar has selection tools (Section Four, Part One), v iew tools such as zoom in, zoom out, and pan, layer management tools (Section Th ree, Part One), and other tools such as a meaurement tool, statistics tool and l egend control tools (Section Three, Part One). Drawing Toolbar The drawing toolbar contains tools for drawing new line and region entities, and for other features such as adding text. Tools Toolbar The tools toolbar by default includes tools such as Run MapBasic program (also accessed by Tools > Run MapBasic Program, discussed in Section Fo ur, Part Three, and Run Mapping Wizard Tool (Tools > Mapping Wizard Tool > Run M apping Wizard Tool). However, more tools may be added to this toolbar using Tool s > Tool Manager, discussed in Section Three, Part Three. Mapping Wizard Go to Mapping Wizard Tool DBMS Toolbar GIS logo DBMS stands for Database Management System. The DBMS toolbar allows tables external to MapInfo to be linked seamlessly into MapInfo so that they may be manipulated using MapInfo's controls. This toolbar i s not often used, but it is an important feature to be aware of. However, before we can play with any of these features, we must first import som e data.