getting it from J-Con to Excel

OK -- so you got Multi-View installed and working on a PC
-- and you have the red and black record buttons showing
-- and you have set the column width to 132 ... lets go get some data

Try an easy report to record ? Say a 2-19 or a 6-4 report? Anything as a test.

Save the report on your PC where you will remember to find it,

Open Excel -- hey -- you can't find it ... change excel setting to open ANY file type --and now you file shows up. See Image#1

Excel says --what do I do with this ?? You have two options -- open with some de-limiters ( can be a comma or a tab or ? ) or open as fixed width and you will cut into columns. One way we handle new reports is to open as delimited - using the default tab as delimiter ... and the J-Con will open as the report with no action ( as you have no embedded tabs in the report) See Image #2

How does your report look? Image #3 shows the report in a 'normal' font - like Arial -- but it looks sloppy - nothing lines up

Change your font to a 'non-proportional' font like COURIER and all of a sudden the report lines up. Image #4

Remember we didn't chop up the report when we first opened it -- now we can using "DATA" then "Text to columns" in Excel See Image #5

Now it is in Excel - next post will give us some more tips on what you can do