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<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="34" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>A fast way of copying from a data source into a text or spreadsheet document, or of creating forms based on a data source, is by drag-and-drop.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="35" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Copying with Drag-and-Drop</p>
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<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="28" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>If you want to reverse a drag-and-drop, position the cursor in your document and choose <span class="T1">Edit - Undo</span>.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="46" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>It is also possible to copy by drag-and-drop from a document into a data source:</p>
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<p class="P2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="47" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>A text table or the selected range of a spreadsheet can be dragged using drag-and-drop to a table container in the data source explorer.</p>
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<p class="P2"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="48" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Plain text can be copied using drag-and-drop from one document to a data field in the data source view.</p>
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<p class="Head3"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="36" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Using data in a text document</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="12" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>You can insert a database field in a text document by dragging a field name from the column header of the data source view into the document. This is especially useful when designing form letters. Simply drag the desired fields - home address, form of address, and so on - into your document.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="37" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>To insert a complete record, select the corresponding header and drag it into the document. When you release the mouse button, the <help:link Id="65967" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">Insert database columns</span></help:link> dialog appears, in which you can decide whether to use all database fields, and whether to copy the data into the document as text, a table or fields. All currently selected records will be inserted.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="39" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Applying data to a table document</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="40" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>You can insert one or more records into the current sheet of a spreadsheet by selecting the rows in the data source view and dragging and dropping them into the spreadsheet. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>The data is inserted at the place where you release the mouse button.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="42" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Inserting controls in a text form</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="43" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>When you create a text form linked to a database, you can generate controls by drag-and-drop from the data source view.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:paragraphinfo state="U" number="45" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>When you drag a database column into the text document, you insert a field. If you hold down Shift+<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> while dragging, a text field is inserted, grouped with an appropriate label field. The text field already contains all the database information that you need for the form.</p>
