IBM Lotus Symphony


Drag-and-Drop With the Data Source View

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.

Mouse pointer copying data Copying with Drag-and-Drop

If you want to reverse a drag-and-drop, position the cursor in your document and choose Edit - Undo.

Tip Icon It is also possible to copy by drag-and-drop from a document into a data source.
Tip Icon 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.
Tip Icon Plain text can be copied using drag-and-drop from one document to a data field in the data source view.

Applying data to a table document

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. The data is inserted at the place where you release the mouse button.


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