The document outlines five methods for exchanging data between Microsoft Excel, Access, and Word, including importing worksheets, drag-and-drop functionality, and using text converters. It also discusses connections to SQL Server using MS Query and exporting Excel data to Lotus Notes with automatic installation of converters. Data exchange specifics vary but often utilize ASCII text or XML formats.

1. Exchanging Data with Microsoft Excel
Access and Excel provide five ways of exchanging information. You can:
To import an Excel worksheet or named range into Word
– or –
On the Insert menu, click File.
Dragging Information Between Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel or Word
The following drag-and-drop functionality is available in Access. You can:
Sharing Information with Word
Word fully supports copying and pasting linked or unlinked data, as described in the
"Overview" earlier in this chapter. In addition, Word includes text converters for importing
Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet data into tables, and for importing Word documents into Lotus
Notes.
Note Word also supports the conversion of Word documents to HTML for intranets or the
Internet. For more information, see "Web Support in Microsoft Word" in Chapter 25, "Web
Support in Microsoft Office Applications."
Use Microsoft Query with ODBC to connect to just about any data source there is.
1.Sharing Data between Excel and SQL Server
Using MS Excel and MS Query
To use Query with Excel, you must install the Query application, the Query add-in, the drivers
for the types of data you want to retrieve, and the necessary ODBC files. To install these files,
rerun Setup and click Add/Remove; then select the Data Access option.
Exporting MS Excel Data to Lotus Notes
When you install Office, Setup detects whether Lotus Notes version 3.x or 4.x (16-bit or 32-bit)
is installed on the computer. If either of them is installed, Setup automatically installs Lotus
Notes converters for Excel and Word. With these text converters, you can import Word and
Excel documents into a Lotus Notes memo.
Data exchange between applications is rather specific to the exchange itself.
The lowest common denominator is usually an ascii txt/dat file where both applications know
the data layout, or xml where the data definition is built into the file.
Relative to a website; it is again very specific to the web site.
There are many different methods to exchange data.
Research items might include Win HTTP, HTML, and XML
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2. Exchanging Data with Microsoft Excel
Access and Excel provide five ways of exchanging information. You can:
To import an Excel worksheet or named range into Word
– or –
On the Insert menu, click File.
Dragging Information Between Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel or Word
The following drag-and-drop functionality is available in Access. You can:
Sharing Information with Word
Word fully supports copying and pasting linked or unlinked data, as described in the
"Overview" earlier in this chapter. In addition, Word includes text converters for importing
Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet data into tables, and for importing Word documents into Lotus
Notes.
Note Word also supports the conversion of Word documents to HTML for intranets or the
Internet. For more information, see "Web Support in Microsoft Word" in Chapter 25, "Web
Support in Microsoft Office Applications."
Use Microsoft Query with ODBC to connect to just about any data source there is.
1.Sharing Data between Excel and SQL Server
Using MS Excel and MS Query
To use Query with Excel, you must install the Query application, the Query add-in, the drivers
for the types of data you want to retrieve, and the necessary ODBC files. To install these files,
rerun Setup and click Add/Remove; then select the Data Access option.
Exporting MS Excel Data to Lotus Notes
When you install Office, Setup detects whether Lotus Notes version 3.x or 4.x (16-bit or 32-bit)
is installed on the computer. If either of them is installed, Setup automatically installs Lotus
Notes converters for Excel and Word. With these text converters, you can import Word and
Excel documents into a Lotus Notes memo.
Data exchange between applications is rather specific to the exchange itself.
The lowest common denominator is usually an ascii txt/dat file where both applications know
the data layout, or xml where the data definition is built into the file.
Relative to a website; it is again very specific to the web site.
There are many different methods to exchange data.
Research items might include Win HTTP, HTML, and XML