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C h a p t e r Tw o - I m p o r t i n g , A t t a c h i n g , & A n n o t a t i n g

U s i n g N o t e Ta k e r, v e r s i o n 2 . 1

Import Text from Other Applications

Insert text from another application into your outline--such as a report or letter written it
TextEdit or Microsoft Word--by importing it.

To import text from another document, open the outline page you want to import to,
choose the File > Import command, and open the document from the Import panel. Or,
Command-Shift drag the document from the Finder to your outline.

To import several documents at once, copying each one's contents to a separate page,
select the documents in the Finder, and Command-Shift drag them to the Contents page
or a section listing.

WHAT ELSE

You can import text from many types of documents, including plain text (.txt), Rich Text Format (.rtf), vCards
(.vcf), XML files (.xml), OPML (.opml), Tab-delimited (.tab), and Comma-delimited (.csv). To import Microsoft
Word documents (.doc), you must be using OS X version 10.3 or later.

To import text into a new notebook, use the Open command. See "File Menu" on page 144.

Command-Shift dragging
several documents at once to
a section listing instantly
builds a diary or journal

Select a text
document in the
Import panel
(or Command-
drag the
document from
the Finder)

Each paragraph
in the document
is inserted into a
separate outline
entry

NoteTaker imports each
document to a new page!