Hello,

My original question was:
>I have a shapefile which has two separate polygons
>sharing a single record in the attribute table.  How
>can I 'split' them so that they are truly two
>different shapes?
>

I chose to go with the Xtools suggestion and it worked
very well.  Thanks to Don Sluter, Michael S. Batcher,
Kathi Hannaford, Rodrigo Souza Barneche

The responses were:

Select each polygon separately, and convert to
shapefile (under the Theme menu).

Sounds like they have been dissolved. Try xtools,
which you can get from The ESRI scripts site. There is
an option to create single part shapes from multipart.
I think that will solve your problem.

Use the "explode" script from esri ArcScripts or the
"convert multipart to single part" function in Xtools
extension (download from ArcScripts or
www.odf.state.or.us/sfgis/).

...you can split the shape into their individual
portions by getting the spatial column in the table
(i.e. "shape" for .shp files) record and issuing the
"EXPLODE" command.

Use the 'clean' command at the edit tools extension.
If you don4t have this extension, here it is.

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Doug Atkinson
douglasatkinson@yahoo.com

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