[Qgis-user] calculating area

[Nik Go]

Hello. I'm trying to calculate area of my shapefiles but I'm not really sure
if I'm doing it right.  I expect results to be in meters (sq meters or sq.
kilometers) but read out is in sq. degrees.  I'm told that I have shapefiles
in geographic coordinate system WGS 84 but I don't know to convert this to a
projected coordinate system from qgis.

So, how should I go about doing


   - converting from geographic coordinated to projected coordinates so I
   could
      - determine/calculate area
      - determine distance between points
   - convert sq. degrees to sq. meters?


Thanks
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