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<p class="P2">If you only want to export certain records from an opened OpenOffice.org Database table, select those records which you would like to export into a text document. To select multiple records, press (Shift) and/or <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">
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<p class="P2">Don't release the mouse button after selecting the last record. Instead, drag the selected data into an open OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet.</p>
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<p class="P2">You can now save the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet in the desired format.</p>