Cradle provides plug-in modules for Microsoft Word and Excel. These are loaded when Cradle is installed on PCs that have Word or Excel 2003, 2007 or XP already installed on them:

The plug-ins provide facilities to capture data from documents and spreadsheets into items in the database. You can capture:

• All selected paragraphs into a single item
• Each selected paragraph into a separate item
• Each table row into a separate item
• Each spreadsheet row into a separate item

Each plug-in has a CRADLE Capture… dialog through which you log-in to your Project Database (PDB). This loads the project schema into the plug-in so you can capture into any type of item defined by the project, and select attribute values from combo boxes. Auto-increment facilities are provided to capture sets of items at once. You can keep the plug-ins’ windows active whilst manipulating Word and Excel, so you can perform a series of captures without repeatedly logging-in to a project.

When capturing from tables or spreadsheets, you define a mapping between columns and attributes of the database items that specify where each columns data should go. You can also ignore columns.

You can use the Word and Excel plug-ins cyclically, to either store new information in the database, or to merge information from a Word document into existing data. This allows you to, for example:

• Capture information from a Word document
• Modify the information in Cradle
• Export the information as a Word document or table
• Modify the information in Word
• Merge the changes back into the Cradle Database

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