<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2847"><span>Dear Kirk,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2823"><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thanks.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_3092"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_3091"><span>I will try it out.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_3090"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2921">It is not merge.  I am trying to intersect two vector ShapeFiles.  Each contains a collection of polygons.  Each collection of polygons cover the same geography, but has different boundaries.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span>Can I do that?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span>Regards,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516132880124_2822" dir="ltr"><span>David</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 17:16, Kirk Schmidt <kirk@nortekresources.com> wrote:<br></font></div>  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4457419938"><div>
    <div>Oh, that's simple.  In the upper word menu, under
      Vector>Geometry Tools> Select Multipart to single part. 
      Repeat this for all you polygon layers and then your merge should
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        <div id="yiv4457419938yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516121095642_6199"><span>Regards,</span></div>
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                On Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 14:09, Kirk Schmidt
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                    <div id="yiv4457419938yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516121095642_6278">This
                      usually occurs when you try to merge features that
                      are mixed single and multipart lines or polygons.
                      Simply use vector geometry tools to convert from
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