This document provides a tutorial on how to integrate MS Word, Excel, or OpenOffice with Lotus Notes applications using SWING Integrator. It outlines 3 main steps: 1) Copying design elements from the SWING Integrator database to the destination database. 2) Modifying Notes forms to add a subform for attachments. 3) Setting up Office templates to transfer data between the applications and enable in-place editing of documents. The result is a document library that allows bi-directional sharing of data between Notes and Office applications.

1. In this tutorial, we will show how to integrate MS Word, Excel or OpenOffice with a standard Lotus Notes application SWING Integrator Tutorial As a sample application we will use the standard Doc Library template. Let's start by creating a new database. www.swingsoftware.com

2. Step 1: Copy SWING Integrator design elements to your database Select the destination database (DocLib) and let the Wizard do the rest Open the Integrator database and start the Setup Wizard

5. It’s ready to use now! The form has got new buttons The Template action creates a new Office document based upon the template assigned to this form

6. Integrator populates the document with Notes data The resulting document will be saved to Notes for no-hassle editing