You can use update column to populate your column with objectinfo(obj,3).
The mapbasic would be something like

Update <table> Set <columnname> = objectinfo(obj,3)

- you'd probably have to be sure that all the objects are text before hand,
though.

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David Booth
Senior GIS Officer
Merseyside Information Service

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> Subject:      MI text objects
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> Hello all!
> 
> Is there a way to extract the text from text objects, and stick them in 
> a table?   TIA
> 
> Peggy Corey
> GIS Techinician
> City of Fort Wayne
> 427-2646
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