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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
<lastedited date="2004-06-07T13:26:41">FPE: Removed mentioning of Adabas (#i10510#)</lastedited>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151299" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="93"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/11000002.xhp" name="Data sources in $[officename]">Data sources in $[officename]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150445" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="94">You can register a database with $[officename] and then insert records from the database into a document.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150616" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="49">Selecting the Address Book</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153049" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="101">To select the address address book that you want to use, choose <link href="text/shared/01/01110101.xhp" name="File - Templates - Address Book Source"><emph>File - Templates - Address Book Source</emph></link>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153748" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="19">Creating a New Data Source</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">When you register a data source, $[officename] creates a link to the database so that you can access its data.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3147576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">To select and specify the properties of a data source, such as the name that $[officename] uses for the data source, choose <emph>Tools - Data Sources </emph>to open the <emph>Data Source Administration </emph>dialog.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3147209" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">To use an existing database, type the path to the database in the <emph>Data source URL </emph>box. If the data source is a text or dBase database, specify the folder that contains the database and its tables.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147275" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="26">Opening a Data Source</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="102">To open the data source view, press F4 in a text, spreadsheet or form document.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154046" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">To view the contents of a database, click the plus sign (+) in front it name in the data source view.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155449" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="28">Copying and Moving Database Objects</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149164" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">In the data source view, you can copy database objects by drag and drop, even within the same database.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="100">To quickly add a record from a table cell in a $[officename] Writer document, an HTML document or from $[officename] Calc, select the cell, and then drag it into a database table in data source view. You can also drag a record from a database table into a document.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="52">To move a database object, hold down Shift while you drag.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3147559" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="53">Field naming conventions are different for different database types. For example, in dBase tables, field names can only be 10 characters long.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="40">Copying database queries</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151056" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">To create a new query that is similar to an existing one, simply drag the existing query onto the Queries container in the data source view.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150085" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">If you drag the query onto a table container, the query is treated as a table.</paragraph>
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