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7) Final result: On <Date>, our breakfast cost <Breakfast> paid by
<BPayment>, our lunch cost <Lunch> paid by <LPayment>, and our supper
cost <Supper> paid by <SPayment>.
8) Add data to the fields of the sentence:
• Click the gray box to the left of the row of data you want to add. That row
should be highlighted like the second row of Figure 213.
• Click the Data to Fields icon (circled). This should fill the fields with the
data from the row you chose.
• Click another row and then click this icon again. The data in the sentence
changes to this selected row of data.
• Save the document if you want to use it as an example later.
Figure 213: Selected row in data source window
Adding data in table format is a little easier and takes perhaps fewer steps. Some of
the steps will be quite similar.
1) Navigate to the place you want to place the table and click the location.
2) Control+Click the gray box to the left of each row of the data source that you
want to be a row in your table when the rows are not consecutive. To select
consecutive rows, click the gray box to the left of the top desired row and
Shift+click the bottom desired row.
3) Click the Data to text icon to open the Insert Database Columns dialog (Figure
214). (The Data to text icon is to the left of the Data to Fields icon in Figure
213.)
4) Move the fields you want in your table from the Database Columns list to the
Table column(s) list.
• To place the fields in the order you select, click the field and use the single
arrow to move the fields in the order you desire. You can also limit the fields
you use to less than all of the fields available.
• If you want to use all of the fields, use the double arrow pointing to the
right to move all of them at one time. The order of the fields in the table you
create will be the same as in the data source table.
• To remove a single field from the Table Column(s) list, click the field and
use the single arrow pointing to the left.
5) To start over, click the double arrow pointing to the left.
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