Import Tags from Serif Album Plus

How do I import tags from another programme ie. Serif Album Plus?

Hi Rave,
Sorry, new to this.I have a trial download of Elements 11, on a pc running Win 7 Pro 64bit Don't like the layout of elements 11 as much as my old Photoshop Album 2 most of the writing on screen is too small for me to read and I can find no way of altering this. In Serif, I have several main headings, some of which are sub-divided into other tagged catagories. I hoped to transfer all this info to save having to re tag all my collection.

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I started with 5000 images on a hard drive. I gave a copy to someone else working on the project.
I physically moved images into real folders and edited all the shots.
She left all the images where they originally were and tagged each image.
I want to combine her tags with the edits that I've done, with the images in their new locations I've made.
I have a copy of her catalogue file.
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I'm using Windows Photo Gallery, and Canon's RAW codec 1.5. Is the codec from the Microsoft Link you posted written by Microsoft, or is it a posting of one of Canon's?
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