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Templates

User’s Guide

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or with delimiters separating variable-length fields in the record, as in the fol-
lowing:

2348,493848
48,393948
8,293832
9,832928
185,392038
28,282930

Once downloaded to the PC, this data file can be easily translated by a data-
base or spreadsheet program. The first value in each record goes into a

Loca-

tion

field, the second value goes into an

Item Number

field, and the program

pairs the values appropriately.

Another use of templates is to break down data stored in one register into two
or more register fields (for example, to strip out the first section of a code).

Creating a Template

To create a template, complete the following steps:

Figure 57. The Create Template Dialog

1. Select

Create > Data > Template

from the menubar. The

Create Tem-

plate

window is displayed as shown in

Figure 57

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