JUMO 702540 TDA-300 / TDA-3000 - Handheld thermometer Operating Manual - Manual (Page 59)

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9 Evaluating data with a PC
9.4 Opening CSV data on the PC
Processing in
EXCEL
h Start EXCEL (e.g. EXCEL 97).
h From the File menu, select the function Open.
h Switch the file type over to Text files.
h Open the corresponding CSV file.
EXCEL will automatically start the Text Wizard for converting the data to the
EXCEL format.
h In the EXCEL Text Wizard, step 1 of 3 is confirmed with “Continue”.
h With step 2 of 3, the “Tab” separator has to be inactivated and “Comma”
activated.
h Close the Text Wizard with “Close”.
The CSV file data are now available for displaying them graphically, or for
calculation purposes.
Decimal sign
H
In the more recent versions of EXCEL, the Text Wizard does no
longer start automatically.
h Open a blank table.
h Use the “Import external data” function in the “Data” menu.
H
According to the operating system language (German, English, ...),
a “.” (point) or “,” (comma) is used as decimal signs.
If required, use the EXCEL “Search and Replace” function for
conversion. If a wrong format is used, EXCEL will interpret the data
as text and not as numbers. This means that the data cannot
readily be displayed graphically.