You can copy database records into another database document, or into a text or spreadsheet document.
To copy records to another document:
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If you're not already in Browse or List mode, choose Browse or List from the Layout menu. |
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Select the record or records you want to copy or move. |
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Choose Copy or Cut from the Edit menu. |
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Open the document into which you want to paste the records. |
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If the destination document is a word-processing or spreadsheet document, click the location where you want to paste the records. |
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In a database document, pasted records automatically appear at the end of the database. |
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Choose Paste from the Edit menu. |
You can also copy the contents of summary fields from one AppleWorks database to another or to a spreadsheet.
To copy the contents of summary fields:
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Add a grand summary or subsummary to your layout. |
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If you're not already in Browse mode, choose Browse from the Layout menu. |
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Choose Page View from the Window menu. |
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Press the Enter key to deselect all records. |
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Choose Copy Summaries from the Edit menu. |
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Open the AppleWorks spreadsheet or database document where you want to copy the summary data, and choose Paste from the Edit menu. |
The way the records are arranged depends on the type of document into which you pasted them:
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Copies the field data into the field with the same sequence in the tab order, but only if the field types match (if they don't match, nothing is pasted in that field) |
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A text document |
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Inserts tab characters between each field and return characters at the end of each record |
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A spreadsheet |
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Copies the contents of each record into a row of the spreadsheet, with each field in a cell (each column of the spreadsheet holds the values for a particular field) |
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