Apple M9057 User Manual - Page 45
Converting documents
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Creating, opening, and printing documents 2-19 To Do this Insert an entire document, such as clip art (commercially produced graphics) into an AppleWorks document Use one of the following methods: 1 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 Show pop-up menu, choose the file, and then click Insert. (To insert information into fields of an AppleWorks database, see "Importing data from other documents" on page 8-38.) 1 Use drag and drop. Open the AppleWorks document to receive the information to insert. Then drag the icon of the document that contains the information to insert into the AppleWorks document. Open a document created by Click on the Default button bar, or choose Open from the AppleWorks for File menu, choose a document, and then click Open. Windows 95 If you don't see the document, choose Control Panels from the 4 menu, and then choose PC Exchange. (PC Exchange is a Control Panels extension included with Macintosh System 7.5 and available for System 7 and higher from Apple Computer, Inc.). Click On, and then click Add. For DOS Suffix, type .CWK, select AppleWorks in the list of applications, and then click OK. Repeat for DOS suffix .CWS. For more information about PC Exchange and formatting disks so they can be read by both Mac OS and PC computers, see the documentation that comes with your computer. Converting documents In the Help index,* see: E documents, converting You can convert multiple documents created with previous versions of the AppleWorks application or with different applications to the current AppleWorks format at one time. Use the Convert Documents script (a script is a command that performs one action or sequence of actions). When you convert documents, only a copy is converted; the original documents remain in the format used to create them. Note To convert a FileMaker Pro file, you use instructions different from those that follow. See "Merging data into documents (mail merge)" on page 9-22. 1. In the Finder, open the AppleWorks Scripts folder (in the AppleWorks 5 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.