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Exporting

To export a list, select Save As... in the File menu, then check the Export box.

You can export all records or only marked records, as a Carnet list or as a text file. By exporting marked records as a Carnet list, you can create a 'sublist' that will only contain the records that are marked in the list.

Exporting a Tab-Delimited Text File

To export a text file, Carnet will ask you which delimiters to use and which fields to export:

If the return character is used as a delimiter, it must not be used within the fields. Since addresses and notes can contain returns, it is necessary to change it to a different character in the exported file, otherwise the resulting file will be impossible to import into another program.

The export dialog lets you define the replacement character. Use a space if you want to delete the returns and put all the data (such as addresses) in a single line. Use a rarely used character such as ¶ to be able to recreate the returns later in another program, with a search/replace operation.

Fields to Export

Click Check All or Uncheck All to quickly select or unselect the fields to export. Check the fields you need.

If Save fields names as first record is checked, Carnet inserts an extra record before actually exporting the data, where each field contains its own name. Such a header record will be useful with a word processor, to do a mail merge outside of Carnet.

if Skip separators if field is empty is checked, Carnet will not export an empty field, i.e. the corresponding tab (or whatever delimiter is used) is skipped. This option is useful to convert a list to non structured text, for example to retrieve the result in a word processor where the extra tabs would be annoying.