topic Re: exporting a selection of polygons in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477881#M16024 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>excellent....that did it. Thanks very much</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:44:25 GMT MikeHenson 2014-12-24T15:44:25Z exporting a selection of polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477879#M16022 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have selected some polygons representing property parcels in my map. How can I export only the selected ones and not the entire data file? Would like to have them saved as a shape file.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:33:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477879#M16022 MikeHenson 2014-12-24T15:33:30Z Re: exporting a selection of polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477880#M16023 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In your table of contents right click on the feature class and and select data -&gt; export.&nbsp; There is a radio button that will be checked by default for the selected records...</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:39:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477880#M16023 JoeBorgione 2014-12-24T15:39:58Z Re: exporting a selection of polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477881#M16024 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>excellent....that did it. Thanks very much</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:44:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477881#M16024 MikeHenson 2014-12-24T15:44:25Z Re: exporting a selection of polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477882#M16025 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Right-click on the shapefile in the Table of Contents.</P><P>Go down to Data...click on it and a context menu will appear. Among the choices are 'Export Data...'</P><P>A box opens up with a drop-down box that shows either 'Selected Features' or 'All Features' or All Features in View Extent'.</P><P></P><P>You want the 'Selected Features'option.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:10:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/exporting-a-selection-of-polygons/m-p/477882#M16025 John_S_Wood 2015-01-07T23:10:02Z