importing blender into blender

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hello

   Let's say i made a chair in a blender file, and in another file I would like to import the chair in, is that possible using blender format directly or i'll have to first export them into 3ds or something?

thanks

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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Using_Linked_Libraries

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Think append or link. Not export or import.