Printing to .tsv file

Posted by Stubby on December 26, 2006, 12:00 pm

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Win2kPsp4, QD07

I put up a summary display of an account and hit the Printer icon,
selecting "print to file" and "tab separated values (Excel compatible)".
All I can find is a link file in my profileRecent Files. But that
link won't open. Can someone suggest a way to make this work so I can
fondle the file in Excel (actually OpenOffice, but that's a different
story.) TIA

Posted by DP on December 26, 2006, 10:57 pm

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> Win2kPsp4, QD07

> I put up a summary display of an account and hit the Printer icon,

> selecting "print to file" and "tab separated values (Excel compatible)".

I've never done what you're trying myself, but doesn't it also ask you where
you want to put the file? If so, put it on your desktop for starters. That
way you shouldn't have to go searching for it. You can always move it to
another folder later.
Lemme know if that helps at all.

Posted by Stubby on December 27, 2006, 9:06 am

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DP wrote:

>> Win2kPsp4, QD07

>> I put up a summary display of an account and hit the Printer icon,

>> selecting "print to file" and "tab separated values (Excel compatible)".

> I've never done what you're trying myself, but doesn't it also ask you where

> you want to put the file? If so, put it on your desktop for starters. That

> way you shouldn't have to go searching for it. You can always move it to

> another folder later.

> Lemme know if that helps at all.

Of course. But it doesn't work. That's why I had to ask. I'm
beginning to think I have to do something to close the file to make it
real. Certainly non-intuitive.

Posted by Han on December 27, 2006, 12:31 pm

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> DP wrote:

>>> Win2kPsp4, QD07

>>>

>>> I put up a summary display of an account and hit the Printer icon,

>>> selecting "print to file" and "tab separated values (Excel

>>> compatible)".

>> I've never done what you're trying myself, but doesn't it also ask

>> you where you want to put the file? If so, put it on your desktop for

>> starters. That way you shouldn't have to go searching for it. You can

>> always move it to another folder later.

>> Lemme know if that helps at all.

> Of course. But it doesn't work. That's why I had to ask. I'm

> beginning to think I have to do something to close the file to make

> it real. Certainly non-intuitive.

Make sure you write down the name you gave the file (let's say
stubbydat.tsv).

Now hold down the windows logo key and hit F. This should open a search
window. Make sure you search for all files and folders, and that it says
show hidden and system files, and search subfolders.
In the filename contains box type only stubbydat

See what comes up.

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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Stubby on December 27, 2006, 2:57 pm

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Han wrote:

>> DP wrote:

>>>> Win2kPsp4, QD07

>>>>

>>>> I put up a summary display of an account and hit the Printer icon,

>>>> selecting "print to file" and "tab separated values (Excel

>>>> compatible)".

>>>

>>> I've never done what you're trying myself, but doesn't it also ask

>>> you where you want to put the file? If so, put it on your desktop for

>>> starters. That way you shouldn't have to go searching for it. You can

>>> always move it to another folder later.

>>> Lemme know if that helps at all.

>>>

>> Of course. But it doesn't work. That's why I had to ask. I'm

>> beginning to think I have to do something to close the file to make

>> it real. Certainly non-intuitive.

> Make sure you write down the name you gave the file (let's say

> stubbydat.tsv).

> Now hold down the windows logo key and hit F. This should open a search

> window. Make sure you search for all files and folders, and that it says

> show hidden and system files, and search subfolders.

> In the filename contains box type only stubbydat

> See what comes up.

Thanks. I did that but all that turned up was foo.dat.lnk the
shortcut. It's
as if the real file never quite got closed and doesn't exist.
Did you try it? Did it work????