# Regarding Exporting of Data **Category:** [Yahoo Archive](https://www.epiusers.help/c/yahoo-archive/9) **Created:** 2000-09-13 15:33 UTC **Views:** 344 **Replies:** 0 **URL:** https://www.epiusers.help/t/regarding-exporting-of-data/1103 --- ## Post #1 by @system
If you do not want to use the export function of Vantage to export you can
also do :

* Open Progress Report Writer
* Create a basic report - MINUS - the headers, footers, and totals. You can
link tables and do anything else you might normally do.
* Insert commas or some other unique symbol that DOES NOT exist in your data
between each field. ( Commas are usually trouble because they exist in
"Text" fields so often. I like to use "[" - left bracket. )

* From file menu click on export data
* enter the location and name of the file you want to create
"C:\test.txt"
* click on "Carriage returns" on EVERY band line

* From within ACCESS - import data - specify your deliminator ( you may have
to enter it under "Advanced" settings ).

For some things this is much faster then trying to figure out a complex
query.

Todd Anderson
J. Rubin & Co.
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