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The '''import and export of data''' is the automated or semi-automated [[input and output]] of [[data set]]s between different [[Application software|software application]]s. It involves "translating" from the format used in one application into that used by another, where such translation is accomplished automatically via machine processes, such as [[transcoding]], [[data transformation]], and others. True exports of data often contain data in raw formats otherwise unreadable to end-users without the user interface that was designed to render it.<ref>{{cite web|title=Export Salesforce Data|accessdate=November 7, 2012|url=http://www.sfdataexport.com/export-salesforce-data/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424095819/http://www.sfdataexport.com/export-salesforce1alesforce-data/|archive-date=April 24, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Import and export of data shares semantic analogy with [[Cut, copy, and paste|copying and pasting]], in that sets of data are copied from one application and pasted into another. In fact, the [[software development]] behind operating system [[clipboard (computing)|clipboards]] (and clipboard extender apps) greatly concerns the many details and challenges of data transformation and transcoding, in order to present the end user with the illusion of effortless copy and paste between any two apps, no matter how internally different. The "Save As" command in many applications requires much of the same engineering, when files are saved as another file format.