14. Importing and Exporting Bento Data and Libraries
This chapter shows you how to share your Bento data and libraries by importing and exporting them.
Importing and Exporting Basics
One of the key features of Bento is the ease with which data can be imported and exported. In Chapter 4, “Building a Bento Library from Your Own Data,” you saw how to take a data file and import it into Bento, automatically creating a new table from the data. It is a simple process that can quickly bring legacy data, data from the Web, or any other data in a supported format into Bento.
Bento supports input formats including spreadsheets from Excel and Numbers (part of iWork) as well as tab-delimited files such as those from AppleWorks along with comma-separated-value ...
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