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Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between IBM® Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
Working with shared information
These tasks explain how to import and export data between Notes and other applications.
Importing files into documents that have rich-text fields
You can import text files, word processing files, HTML files, graphics files, and spreadsheet files into documents that have rich-text fields, as long as the source file is stored in a location you can access, such as your local hard disk drive or file server.
Importing text files
You can import rich-text files, ASCII text files, and word processing files into a rich-text field in an IBM® Notes® document.

Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between IBM® Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
- Getting started with sharing information
  These tasks explain how to copy data into Notes, and how to share your Notes data with other applications.
- Sharing information with other applications quick reference
  This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for sharing information with other applications, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
- Working with shared information
  These tasks explain how to import and export data between Notes and other applications.
  - Importing and exporting
    You can import data from many popular applications into a IBM® Notes® document or view, and export data from a Notes document or view into many of the same applications.
  - Importing files into documents that have rich-text fields
    You can import text files, word processing files, HTML files, graphics files, and spreadsheet files into documents that have rich-text fields, as long as the source file is stored in a location you can access, such as your local hard disk drive or file server.
    - Importing text files
      You can import rich-text files, ASCII text files, and word processing files into a rich-text field in an IBM® Notes® document.
      - How can I import rich-text files?
        To import a rich-text file, follow the below steps.
      - How can I import ACSII text files?
        For ASCII text, use the following steps for import.
      - How can I import word processing files?
        You can import Word Pro®, Microsoft™ Word, and WordPerfect word processing files.
    - How can I import HTML files?
      You can import the text of an HTML file, and the graphics if they are stored locally, into an IBM® Notes® rich-text field.
    - How can I import graphics files?
      You can import several types of graphics files -- BMP, CGM, GIF, JPEG, ® PIC, PCX, and TIFF 5.0 -- into a rich-text field in an IBM® Notes® document.
    - How can I import spreadsheet files into documents that have rich-text fields?
      You can import Lotus 1-2-3® and Microsoft™ Excel spreadsheet files into a rich-text field in a document. An imported spreadsheet becomes a table.
  - Exporting documents into text files
    You can export documents into rich-text files and word processing files.
- Advanced shared information topics
  These tasks describe how to work with object linking and embedding, and how to import or export formatted data.

Importing text files

You can import rich-text files, ASCII text files, and word processing files into a rich-text field in an IBM® Notes® document.

About this task

Note: To find out whether or not the field you want to import to is a rich-text field, click that field, and click Edit > Document Properties (switch to Document if necessary), then click Fields (second tab) and the field name in the left box. In the right box, any rich-text field is listed as Data Type: Rich Text.

For more information on how Notes® imports formatting, see Features that Notes® translates.