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If you have a list of codes in another document (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet
or a text file) you can copy and paste these into the Publisher to select your
subset of geographic features. The codes in the list should be separated
by a space or each on a new line (Figure 11).
Figure 11
The steps are the following:
1. Open the document containing your list of codes
2. Select the codes and copy them (Ctrl-C)
3. In the ‘Selection’ dialog of the Publisher, click the ‘Paste’ button
Any features with codes that exactly match those in your list will be
automatically selected (Figure 12).
Figure 12
The ‘Coord. System’ tab allows you to select the coordinate system of the
map layer. This is important if you want to add a WMS background layer,
an ArcGIS Online / ArcGIS Server background layer or a Google Maps
background layer into your report and use the Publisher to re-project your
map files into the projection of the background layer (for more information
about background layers please refer to section ‘B.3.5 Choose Your
Background Images’). If you are using a shapefile that has a .prj file