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# Exporting Data or Views

You can export the data from a workbook or export an image that represents a view, to other applications for presentations and documents.

## Exporting Data

You can either copy a selection of data from a view to use in another application or you can export all the data from the worksheet to an Access database.

#### To copy data to the Clipboard:

1. Select the data in the view that you want to copy.
2. Right-click (Control-click on Mac) the selection and select Copy > Data.
3. Open another application such as MS Word or MS Excel and select Edit > Paste.

Note: You can also copy the data as a cross-tab for use in Microsoft Excel. Select Copy > Crosstab on the context menu.

![](/tableau/current/en-gb/reader/desktop/en-gb/Img/data1.png)

#### To export data to Microsoft Access:

1. Select Worksheet > Export > Data.
    
    ![](/tableau/current/en-gb/reader/desktop/en-gb/Img/data2.png)
2. Enter a location and name for the Access database, and then click Save.
3. In the Export Data to Access dialog box, specify a database name and what data to export, and then click OK.

## Exporting a view as an image

You can either copy the view for use in another application or you can export the view as an image file.

#### To copy the view to the Clipboard:

1. Select Worksheet > Copy > Image.
2. In the Copy Image dialog box, select the contents you want to include and the legend layout if the view contains a legend.
    
    ![](/tableau/current/en-gb/reader/desktop/en-gb/Img/image3.png)
3. Click Copy.
4. Open another application such as MS Word or MS Excel and select Edit > Paste.

Note: In some applications you can select Paste Special and specify a format for the image.

#### To export a view to an image file:

1. Select Worksheet > Export > Image.
    
    ![](/tableau/current/en-gb/reader/desktop/en-gb/Img/image4.png)
2. In the Export Image dialog box, select the contents to include and the legend layout if the view contains a legend, and then click Save.
3. When finished, click Save.
4. In the Save Image dialog box, navigate to where you want to save the image file and type a file name into the text box. Select a file format from the Save as type drop-down list. When finished, click Save.