Report Output -> Export to ESRI Shape File?

There is a thread on here somewhere about it (and what needs to be included in the report output for it to work - sample spatial ref I think), but I can't find it atm.

Hi Steve, I asked the same question in your previous related thread here. I haven't had chance to test Charlie's tool that he posted yet (can't install stuff here at work unfortunately).

The utility within Recorder is often very useful, but not helpful when you have processing to do to the records before sharing them with people. If I only had Arc here I'd start experimenting with genshapes...

If I were you and I had Arc 10 (won't work with previous versions) I'd do these things:

1. Install R, StatConn DCOM and GME see http://www.spatialecology.com/gme/gmedownload.htm

2. Create a dbf file with the *midpoint* of each grid ref and the precision in metres (my spreadsheet almost does this, but you will need to change 100m to 100, 1km to 1000 etc.) in a field called "PRECISION".

3.Convert to a point shapefile spnts.shp

4. In the GME command line window type
genshapes(in="C:\data\spnts.shp", shape=4, dim="PRECISION", out="myoutput.shp");
(See http://www.spatialecology.com/gme/genshapes.htm)

It should be as simple as that, but as I don't have Arc I can't try it :(

Teresa you're a star.  That worked perfectly, thanks so much for putting me on to that!