Exporting Text to a File

You can send a selection of the available interpretations for the current chart to an external file to be used in a separate text editor, printing utility or word-processor. The resulting text file will have an ANSI format without any carriage return/line feeds within the body of each paragraph. This makes it easy to use if it is imported into a word-processor as it will not be necessary to remove "hard" carriage returns from each paragraph of text.

>> To send interpretations to a text file

•Select the Export Text item from the File menu of the "Interpretations Window".

This will display a selection dialog box from which you can choose which categories of interpretations will be exported.

You can select any of the available text categories by ensuring that the check box for that category contains an "X". Click on any of these to select or unselect them. If you switch off the "Chart Points" category then it is not possible to include categories relating to rulerships and aspects between points, so these option become disabled (grayed out). When you are happy with the selection, click on the Export button.

You will then be able to select a folder and filename to which the interpretations text will be sent from a standard Windows "Save File" dialog screen. Initially the filename is set to INTERPS.TXT, but you may change this if you wish, to any valid DOS filename. You might also prefer to select the folder in which your word processor resides in order to make it easier to find the exported file from you word processor.

Once you click on the Export button, the interpretations will be sent to the file that you specified, a series of beeps will be sounded to let you know that it has finished, and you will be returned to the "Interpretations Window".

Note that you cannot export text if you are in General Mode. This export utility can only be used with the interpretations relating to the current chart.