Ed Tech II

Lab Assignment 2

Creating a Database from a Text File

Using ClarisWorks Version 4.0

• Open a new word processing document.
  
  
• Insert the class list text file file clist.txt.
  
  
• Use Find/Replace to change the , followed by a space to a tab (\t).
  
  
• Save the modified to a floppy or the hard drive as clist1.txt.
  
  
• Make a new database with two text fields: LastName and FirstName.
  
  
• Insert clist1.txt into the database.
  
  
• If there are any blank records at the beginning, delete them.
  

There are other ways to do this. For example, instead of saving the modified text file, you could have used copy and paste to insert it into the database. The key step is putting the tab between the last names and the first names.