Progress
Results User’s Guide
for Windows
Export View
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Use the Export view to generate ASCII files to use with other software applications. For example, you can use the Export view to create an ASCII file that contains fields from the Customer table, then use the contents of the ASCII file to customize form letters you create from within a word processing application. You can also use the contents of an ASCII file from within a graphics application to create presentations.
The following figures show an export query and the ASCII file it generates:
This export query contains display fields from the Customer table. The format attributes determine how the contents of these fields are formatted for the ASCII file. See the "Modifying Export Types" section for more information about format attributes.
The next figure uses Print Preview to show the ASCII file generated by the Export query. You can use Print Preview to view ASCII export data:
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