Troxler 3430 Plus, Manual Of Operation And Instruction

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Model 3430 Plus & 3440 Plus Appendix H–5
VIEWING PROJECT DATA
After project data has been printed (uploaded) to the computer, the
.txt file can be viewed using Microsoft Notepad or a word
processing program, such as Microsoft Word
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.
The data can also be imported into an Excel spreadsheet, which can
then be used to manipulate and manage the data. To import the data
into an Excel spreadsheet:
1. Open the Excel program.
2. From the Excel toolbar, click
Data
, then select
Get External
Data
and
Import Text File
. The
Import Text File
window is
displayed.
3. Select the file that was saved when data was downloaded using
the
Hyperterminal program, then click
Import
. The
Text
Import Wizard
is displayed.
4. In step 1 of the
Text Import Wizard
, check the
Delimited
radio button, then click
Next
. In step 2 of the wizard, select
only the Comma checkbox, then click Next . In step 3, select
the
General
radio button, then click
Finish
. The
Import Data
window is displayed.
5. Check the
Existing worksheet
radio button, then click
OK
to
import the data.
Figure 8–1 on page 8–9 defines the information contained in each
column of the spreadsheet.
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