Opening a document created in another program

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Opening a document created in another program

Opening a document created in another program

Inspiration 10 can open the following types of files:

Kidspiration

Microsoft Word RTF

RTF files created using other word processing programs

Plain text files created using other word processing programs

To open a document created in another program:

1.On the Inspiration Starter screen, click the Open File button.

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On the File menu, choose Open.

2.Select the file, then click Open.

In Windows, you can specify the type of document you want to open. In the Open dialog, select the type of file from the Files of Type pop-up menu. Here are your choices:

Inspiration Documents (.isf) opens Inspiration version 7, 8, and 9 documents.

Inspiration 6 Documents (.ins) opens Inspiration 6 documents.

Inspiration Templates (.ist) opens Inspiration templates.

Kidspiration Documents (.kid) opens Kidspiration documents.

Kidspiration Activities (.kia) opens Kidspiration activities.

Rich Text Format (.rtf) opens rich text format documents in Outline View. Inspiration retains most of the structure of the original document.

Plain Text (.txt) opens plain text documents in Outline View. When Inspiration opens a text document, it looks for paragraph returns to determine outline topics. The first sentence of a paragraph becomes an outline topic, and the remaining sentences become notes text.