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APPENDIX G – continued
Exporting and Graphing Data
Exporting serial port instrument data from the Pacer Instrument to a spreadsheet
application such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc allows the data to
graphed or recorded.
The simplest way to export the instrument data is to use a terminal emulator
program, like Parallax Serial Terminal, and either capture the serial data/text to a
file (menu selection) or to manually highlight, copy, and then paste the
instrument data into an editor such as Windows Notepad.
Once you have the instrument data in a file, save the file as a .CSV type (e.g.,
InstrumentData.csv).
Open the file in a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel or
OpenOffice Calc. A graph of the data as shown below can now be generated.