Copying Data to Other Applications

You can enter data into the data table and then copy it to other applications. For example, text and/or data can be pasted into a word processor for reports. Almost any program that supports pasting from the clipboard can receive data from Graphical Analysis. In general you can copy data into your application with the following steps (specific instructions for moving data to Microsoft Word and Excel are below):

General Copy and Paste Steps

  1. Select the data you want to copy.*
  2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the data to the clipboard.
  3. Launch the other application.
  4. Choose Paste from the Edit menu in the other application.

Copy and Paste into Microsoft® Excel®

  1. Select the data you want to copy into Excel.*
  2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the data to the clipboard.
  3. Start Excel and open the document into which you want to paste the data.
  4. In Excel, click on the cell that will be the upper left corner of the data region, then choose Paste from the Edit menu. You are now ready to analyze the data as you wish.

Copy and Paste into Microsoft® Word

  1. Select the data you want to copy into Microsoft Word.*
  2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the data to the clipboard.
  3. Start Microsoft Word and open the receiving document.
  4. In Microsoft Word, choose Paste from the Edit menu.

* Note: You can only copy the data that are selected. To select all the data in a column, single-click the column heading. To copy all of the data in a data table, select the data table and choose Select All from the Edit menu. You can also select data by clicking and dragging over a region of the graph. If a region is selected in a graph, the corresponding range will be selected on the table.

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