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5.17 Copying Data from one Spreadsheet to Another

 

With NExS, you can have many spreadsheets active at a time, limited by the viewing space for windows and icons on your screen and by system resources. Using the Paste action with the mouse, you can easily transfer values and formulas from one NExS spreadsheet to another. This capability can be useful for:


Note: You cannot move data from one spreadsheet to another using the Move operation. You can accomplish the same effect, however, by copying the formulas or values to the destination spreadsheet and using the Clear operation to erase the originals.

To paste formulas from one NExS spreadsheet to another:

  1. Select the cell or range to be copied.

  2. Activate the destination spreadsheet by clicking the left mouse button anywhere in the sheet.

  3. Move the mouse pointer to the destination cell or the upper left corner of the destination range.

  4. Click the middle mouse button to perform the paste.


You can also paste data to and from other X Windows application. For more information, see Chapter 10, Interacting with Other Applications.


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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999