Measurement Computing USB-5100 Series - Manual (Page 52)

USB-5100 Series Software Help Preferences
File Associations
Use this preference to control the association of USB-5100 Series file types on Windows.
Note
You must have administrator privileges on the computer to change file type associations. To temporarily run
USB-5100 Series as an Administrator, right-click the USB-5100 Series icon and select Run as Administrator.
Enter the Administrator name and password as prompted.
By default, files with the extensions of .hob , .hsec , and .hproj are automatically associated with USB-5100
Series. This means that these files are identified by a USB-5100 Series icon and can be opened by double-
clicking them. Click
Map or UnMap to change the file type associations.
Startup
Show splash screen on startup checkbox : This preference controls whether the USB-5100 Series splash
screen displays every time you open the software.
Data Encoding
Data encoding controls how special characters are displayed in files that are exported from USB-5100 Series.
The default is to use UTF-8, a common character encoding protocol for software. Select
Windows default if
characters are not displaying correctly in exported files in Windows.
Export Settings
Use the Export Settings preferences to customize how data is formatted when you export the table data from a
plotted data file, to set up automatic export upon readout, to include plot details in an exported file, and to set
export ordering rules.
To access these settings, complete the following steps:
1. Select File»Preferences (Windows) or USB-5100 Series Software»Preferences (Macintosh).
2. Select General»Export Settings .
3. Change any settings described below and then click OK .
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Export file type: Select how you want exported data to be saved: either to a text file ( .csv or .txt ) or a
Microsoft Excel file ( .xls ).
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Export table data column separator: This setting controls the column separator for exported text files. (If
you selected Excel for the export file type, then this option is disabled.) Select Comma, Tab, or Semicolon.
When Comma is selected as the column separator, the data is saved to a
.csv file that can be imported into
Excel. When Tab or Semicolon is selected, the data is saved to a .txt file.

Include line number column: By default, exported files include line numbers. Clear this checkbox if you
do not want line numbers in the file.

Include plot title in header: Clear this checkbox if you do not want the plot title included in the header of
the exported file.
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Always show fractional seconds: Select this checkbox to show fractional seconds in the time-stamped
data points.
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Separate date and time into two columns: By default, the date and time of a logged data point is
exported as a single column to facilitate graphing in spreadsheet programs. Select this checkbox to split the
date and time into two columns.
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No quotes or commas in headings, properties in parenthesis: Select this checkbox if you do not want
quotations marks and commas in the exported file's column headers. Sensor properties, or units, (such as °F
or RH) are listed in parenthesis instead of quotation marks when this setting is enabled.

Include logger serial number: When this setting is enabled, the logger's serial number is listed in each
column header in the exported file. This is useful if you are exporting data series that were copied and
pasted from plots that originally came from different loggers.

Include sensor serial number, or label if available: When this setting is enabled, each sensor serial
number or label (if available) is listed in each column header in the exported file. This is especially useful
when exporting data from multiple sensors recording the same measurement type (for example, three
temperature sensors).
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