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The standard 'copy', 'cut' and 'paste' functions of Windows are, of course, available within INTERACT.

You can use copy & paste to:

oEasily move elements between data-files, missing Classes are automatically created

oMove elements from one DataSet or DataGroup to another

oTransfer raw data to a third party application like MS Excel

Copy versus Copy without structure

INTERACT offers two different Copy commands:

Copy & Paste Step by Step

•Select the lines you want to copy, using one to the methods described in Select Elements.

•Click Edit - Selected - Copy or press CTRL+C, or click Edit - Selected - Copy > Copy with structure if that is what you prefer.

•Open the document in which the copied elements should be inserted.
This can be another INTERACT data-file as well as any other document that understands ASCII data, like a MS Word or MS Excel document.

•Choose Edit - paste from the menu in the target document or press CTRL+V

All selected items now appear at the position you've pasted them. The following picture shows the results of copying three selected Events from an existing data-file, and after pasting them into:

oan empty INTERACT data-file

oan MS Word document

oan MS Excel document

Note: The other way around is possible as well: edit your data in Excel and paste them back into an INTERACT data-file (if the data structure was left unchanged*).

* You have to make sure that the first row with the header information Level, Onset, Offset, Memo, etc. and at least the first 4 columns are within your selection! Also see Edit Document with ms excel.