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class=926361612-19092008>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=926361612-19092008>I found some really
neat visual basic code at the ESRI web site that calculates the distance from a
point to the nearest polygon. However, the calculated distances are put in
a field that is formatted as text. I would like the distances to be in a
number format so I can work with them statistically. Is there an easy way
to convert from a text format to a number format? I am working in
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=926361612-19092008>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=926361612-19092008>Mike</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael McManus</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Senior Aquatic Ecologist</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Nature Conservancy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Courtesy Research Associate</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Department of Biological Science</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Florida State University</FONT></DIV>
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