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<p class="Paragraph">You can transfer texts into spreadsheets and presentations. When doing this, you have to determine whether the text should be placed into a frame of its own which can be moved anywhere on the screen, or whether it should be transferred into either a cell in the spreadsheet or the outline of the presentation.</p>
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<p class="P2">If you transfer text via the clipboard, you can insert it complete with its text attributes at its target destination. The quickest way to do this is to use the shortcut keys <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">Command</help:case><help:default>Ctrl</help:default></help:switch>+C to copy and <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">Command</help:case><help:default>Ctrl</help:default></help:switch>+V to insert.</p>
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<p class="P2">In a text document you will find the <span class="T1">Send - Outline in Presentations</span> command in the<span class="T1"> File</span> menu. A new presentation document that contains the headings from the text document as an outline is created.</p>
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<p class="P2">If you wish to also send the initial subordinate text paragraph (or more paragraphs) to the headings, select the <span class="T1">AutoAbstract in Presentations</span> command.</p>
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<p class="P3">If you select a text section and drag it into a spreadsheet with drag & drop, it will be inserted as text into the cell where you release the mouse.</p>
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<p class="P3">If you drag a text section to the character preview of a presentation, an OLE object is inserted as a OpenOffice.org plugin.</p>
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<p class="P3">If you drag the text to the outline preview of a presentation, it will be inserted where the cursor is.</p>
