Chapter 13. Importing Data and Working with Other Programs

by Read Gilgen

In this chapter

Moving Information in Windows

Working with Word and Other Word Processing Documents

Importing and Using Database Data

Importing and Using Spreadsheet Data

Troubleshooting

Moving Information in Windows

In today’s office, information is created in a variety of programs. The smartest workers learn how to move and reuse that information, instead of creating it over and over again. In most cases information can be moved easily from one place to another by cutting and pasting. Some information comes in specific, proprietary formats, and must be exported from one format, and imported into WordPerfect in a format that WordPerfect can understand.

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