Exporting into a SpreadSheet
What to do
When you press the "GET" button to retrieve a SpreadSheet, the archive export software provides you with a text that can be saved from within your Web borwser to your local disk.
Usually it's a good idea to save that data to a file named "c:\temp\data.xls", i.e. ending in ".xls". Then you can double-click on the created file, MS Excel will be launched and you're ready to process the data. The comments preceeding the data itself give some more hints for plotting.Internet Explorer 5
There is a problem with this specific version of the MS Internet Explorer. The following does not apply to Netscape or older versions of IE:
Even if you choose the menu item "File/Save As" and then "Save as type=Text File", the generated text file will contain additional leading lines like these:These lines, wrongly added by IE 5, have to be removed with e.g. the notepad program before Excel can parse the file.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY><XMP>; Generated from archive data
;
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Another option: Save as "Text File" AND use "txt" for an ending, not "xls".