Importing and exporting documents – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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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 Translators folder. (The AppleWorks Translators folder is
in the AppleWorks folder, which is in the Application Support folder in the
System Folder.)

Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

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 HTML, from the Save As pop-up menu.

(If the application 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 can then open the
document in any application that supports that format.)

Import (convert) a document
created with a different
application

Use one of the following methods:

Choose Open from the File menu. In the Open dialog box,
select the appropriate document type from the Document
Type pop-up menu. Select the file, and then click Open. The
original document is unchanged.

Use the Convert Documents script. See “Converting
documents” on page 2-19.

Create a document in the AppleWorks application format by
converting one from a different format. See “Converting
documents” on page 2-19.

Use drag and drop. Open the AppleWorks document to
receive the information and then drag the icon of the
document that contains the information to import into the
AppleWorks document.

In the Help index,

see:

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