Gobe Productive User's Guide - Translators

- Documentation conventions
- The Productive documents
- The Productive interface
- The MenuBar
- The FormatBar
- The PartBar
- The ToolBar
- Frames & graphic items
- Selecting
- Sheets
- Cutting and pasting
- Tear-Off tools
- Page setup
- How to print
- Document size, margins, & history
- Headers & footers
- Views & windows
- Keyboard & mouse mappings
- Preferences
- Translators

# Translators

Translate Gobe Productive Documents into Other Formats | Open Documents Non-Gobe Productive Documents

Gobe Productive can read Microsoft Word and Excel files. Files in these formats are translated into the Gobe Productive Suite. Once translated, the files can then either be saved as Gobe Productive files, or they can be saved back into the Microsoft Excel or Word format.

Gobe Productive also translates to and from HTML. File attributes, like underlining, bold, etc., are kept during the translation, but any hyperlinks within the HTML are not translated.

Note: For this release, not all Excel functions are supported by Gobe Productive's translator. Functions that are not supported are returned with an error.

## To Translate Gobe Productive Documents into Other Formats

1. In the document that you want to translate, select Save As from the File menu.
2. A standard BeOS Save dialog is displayed. In this dialog box, you select where you want the document saved and enter the name of the document.
3. In the Save dialog box, menu click on File Format.
4. A drop-down menu is displayed from which you can choose the desired format for the document. Gobe Productive is the default setting.
5. When you select a format, it is checked within the File Format drop-down box.
6. If you then click Save, the document is saved in the location that you specified, with the name you specified, in the format you chose.

## To Open Documents from Other Formats

1. Open a new document either from the New Document dialog box or from the File menu within a Gobe Productive document.
2. A standard BeOS Open File dialog box is displayed. Locate the file you wish to open, and click Open.
3. In the Open File dialog box menu, click on Document Type and choose the type of format you want to select a document from. Only documents of that certain selected format are now displayed in the Open File dialog box.
4. Select the document of choice and click Open. Gobe Productive opens the document in Gobe Productive format.

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