Disclosed is an apparatus for and a method of retrieving data from a displayed source document and displaying a listing of segments of text, accompanying data located in the source document, as a result of a given query in a displayed results document. The portion of the source document, from which a given listing is retrieved, can be selected for display from the results document. Material to be transferred to a displayed destination document may be selected from either the source or the results document. The destination document will typically be of a different format than the source document. Editing of the transferred material may be performed in the destination document. Further, a review of the listing of material in the results document from which inserted material was selected may be obtained while that portion of the destination document is being examined. A "best guess" algorithm may be used to automatically fill at least some of the fields of the destination document from the source document for later review and editing by a user.