I completely agree with Michael. It seems that most of the current GIS professionals never had to use ArcView 3.x, so they don't know what they are missing. The ability to select/promote/sort tabular records is incredibly useful and powerful. I used this functionality all the time when trying to clean up a join between an "outside" table and a shapefile. I don't understand why the Table functions get progressively worse with every iteration of ArcMap. It sounds odd, but to bring back core ArcView 3.x functionality would greatly enhance ArcMap or Pro. PLEASE.
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