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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Inserting an Entire Text Document</title>
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      <bookmark_value>text documents;merging</bookmark_value>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1812799" role="heading" level="2">To Insert a Text File</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155855" role="listitem">Place the cursor in the document where you want to insert the file.</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147412" role="listitem">Choose <menuitem>Insert - Text from File</menuitem>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149839" role="listitem">Locate the text document that you want to insert, and then click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148858" role="paragraph">The contents of the text document are embedded into the current document and are not updated if the source file is changed. If you want the contents to automatically update when you change the source document, insert the file as a link.</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3156105" role="heading" level="2">To Insert an Entire Text Document as a Link</paragraph>
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         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150096" role="listitem">Place the cursor in the document where you want to insert the file.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153404" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Insert - Section</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153127" role="listitem">Type a name in the <emph>New Section</emph> box, and then select the <emph>Link</emph> check box.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149642" role="listitem">In the <item type="menuitem">File Name</item> box, type the name of the file that you want to insert, or click the <item type="menuitem">Browse</item> button and locate the file.</paragraph>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149968" role="listitem">If the target text document contains sections, you can select the section that you want to insert in the
               <item type="menuitem">Sections</item> box.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149619" role="listitem">If you want, set the formatting options for the section.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149862" role="listitem">Click <emph>Insert</emph>.</paragraph>
         </listitem>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145099" role="paragraph">$[officename] automatically updates the contents of the inserted section whenever the source document is changed. To manually update the contents of the section, choose <emph>Tools - Update - Update All</emph>.</paragraph>
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