Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 - Manual (Page 41)

Creating, opening, and printing documents 2-15
Importing and exporting documents
You can share AppleWorks documents with other applications by importing
to or exporting from AppleWorks documents.
To import and export documents, the AppleWorks application uses
translators, special files that translate information for many popular
software applications. These files, which come with AppleWorks, are in
your AppleWorks 5 folder.
You can import documents created in other applications using Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE). For more information, see “Including other
applications in your documents (OLE)” on page 9-30.
* Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.
To Do this
Export a document so it can
be read by an application
other than AppleWorks Choose Save As from the File menu, and then choose a file
format, such as *.WMF, from the Save as type pop-up menu.
(If the file format you want to use isn’t listed, try using one of
the commonly accepted formats—Text, DBF, DIF, Microsoft
Excel, or SYLK—to save the document. You may be able to
open the document in any application that supports that
format.)
Import (convert) a
document created with a
different application Choose Open from the File menu. In the Open dialog box, select
the appropriate document type from the Document Type and
Files of type pop-up menus. Select the file, and then click Open.
The original document is unchanged.
Insert an entire document,
such as clip art
(commercially produced
graphics) into an
AppleWorks document In the AppleWorks document, click where you want to insert
the file, and then click
on the Default button bar, or choose
Insert from the File menu. In the Insert dialog box, select the file
type from the Files of type pop-up menu, choose the file, and
then click Open. (To insert information into fields of an
AppleWorks database, see “Importing data from other
documents” on page 8-37.)
Open a document created by
AppleWorks for Macintosh Click on the Default button bar, or choose Open from the
File menu, choose Show All Files (*.*) from the Files of type
pop-up menu, choose a document, and then click Open.
In the Help index, * see:
E
exchanging data