You can save an entire document to a named file using the Save command. Alternatively, you can save the content of a marked block or range of columns. The Save as command enables you to specify further options, such as the format of the file to be saved. You can also save all rows satisfying a condition, enabling you to create a subset of a database or a document.
If you have finished editing a file and you want to save it, the simplest way is to close the window.
If the file has been modified, a prompt will appear asking you whether you want to save the updated file.
Click the Save dialogue box then appears.
button. TheIf you originally loaded the file from disc or have previously named the file with the Rename file command, the filename already appears at this point. Drag the file’s icon from the Save dialogue box into the directory display you want to save it in. Obviously, you need to have the required directory display on the screen. It will be saved there with the leafname you gave it in the Save dialogue box.
Another way to save the file is to type in the name with which you want the file to be saved and then click the Return↵)
button (or pressThe condition you type in will be evaluated before each row is saved. Only if the result is true will the row be saved. The condition will normally contain ranges. These references are updated one row for each new line.
If you type B1B100>600 as the condition, all rows up to row 100 where the second column evaluates to a number greater than 600 will be saved.
You can include text strings in the condition, but they must be placed within double quotation marks.
A1A100>"Fred"
will save all rows up to row 100 lying alphabetically after Fred.
A string can contain the wildcards
^?
(any single character) and
^#
(any multiple character).
All string comparisons treat lower-case and upper-case letters as matching.
You can save rows which satisfy more than one condition by using the &
(AND) operator and
rows which match one of several conditions by using the |
(OR) operator.
The format of the file you loaded will appear as the default setting. Click on the format you want.
You can load an entire document into the computer.
You can also add to a document already in memory.
You can load part of a document by specifying a range of row numbers that you want to load;
this enables you to load a file in sections that would be too large to load in one piece.
Plain text from another program can be loaded into PipeDream; fields separated by TAB
characters will automatically be put into separate columns on the document.
PipeDream automatically recognises the format of files and loads them in the correct format.
The simplest way to load a PipeDream document is to get the directory display containing the file on the screen and double-click
on the file’s icon.If the file is not a PipeDream file, drag the file’s icon from the directory display onto the PipeDream icon on the icon bar.
If you are not already running PipeDream, double-clicking on a PipeDream file’s icon will start up PipeDream and load the file.
Position the caret at the point in one document (file-a) where you want the other file (file-b) to be inserted. Drag file-b’s icon into file-a’s window. The merged file will take file-a’s column structure and settings.
Select the required format option in the Load dialogue box.
Auto is the default format. If you do not change this, PipeDream looks at the start of the file to decide what type of file it is and loads it assuming that format. It is possible, albeit rare, for PipeDream to make the wrong choice for unusual files. If this happens, reload the file but this time specify the type explicitly. To do this, bring up the Load dialogue box from the menu. This will have remembered the name of the file last loaded. Select the desired file format and then click the button (or press Return↵). When PipeDream has loaded a file in a particular format, it sets the default format in the Save dialogue box to match, so that when you save the file again, it will be replaced in its original format.
If the file was a ViewSheet file, the document file type will be set to PipeDream because PipeDream cannot save ViewSheet files.
To name or rename the file in memory, give the Rename File command:
Menu | Command | Tool | Key | Cmd-sequence |
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Files | Rename file | FC |
The name you specify appears on the window’s title bar and in the Save dialogue box when you save the file.
For information on | See |
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Using file templates | Template Files |
Different formats |
PipeDream CSV Text and Paragraph First Word Plus VIEW ViewSheet |