# Saving Shapefiles

**URL:** <https://mapwindow.discourse.group/t/saving-shapefiles/61>\
**Category:** MapWinGIS\
**Created:** [February 4, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/t/saving-shapefiles/61 "2019-02-04T19:42:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ultraLT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bb73d2/32.png) [@ultraLT](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/u/ultraLT)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/t/saving-shapefiles/61/1 "2019-02-04T19:42:13Z")

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Hello,

Looking for options for saving the point type, label, etc… when saving point shapefiles. I don’t see that it is written anywhere.

Appreciate any suggestions or examples.

LT

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**Author:** ![ultraLT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bb73d2/32.png) [@ultraLT](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/u/ultraLT)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/t/saving-shapefiles/61/2 "2019-02-04T20:05:19Z")

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Oops. Please ignore. I somehow missed the documentation wrt shapefile attributes table.

[Shapefile attribute table](https://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.9/group __shapefile__ table.html)

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**Author:** ![pmeems](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mapwindow.discourse.group/pmeems/32/9_2.png) [@pmeems](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/u/pmeems)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://mapwindow.discourse.group/t/saving-shapefiles/61/3 "2019-02-06T11:31:18Z")

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