APPENDIX C
C - 1
APPENDIX C. VRAE DATA CONVERSION TO
MICROSOFT EXCEL
The VRAE multi-gas monitor has a built-in 16,000 point
datalogger that in conjunction with the ProRAE-Suite
software will provide data that can be converted into other
application program such as Microsoft Excel
(Version 7.0
) for further data manipulation or graphing.
To convert the data file into Excel
, and to facilitate easier
data manipulation, the following procedure may be followed:
1. Export the event data to a tab delimited text file, as
described in Section 5.6.6:
Export the displayed data
to a text file
. Assume we have just export the event data
to a file called TextEvent.txt in C:. To convert that file to
a MS-Excel file, open the MS-Excel software, as shown
in Figure C-1.
Figure C-1 Excel Window
Click
File->Open
menu item to open the
Open
dialog box,
select the folder where the file TextEvent.txt is resided, and