Procedure
- Open your search results in the result file.
- See Organizing results.
- Select File > Export > To Text (Tab Delimited).
- The Export to Text (Tab Delimited) dialog box opens.
Export to Text (Tab Delimited) dialog box - By the Path box, select the Browse icon.
- In the Save as dialog box, locate the folder where you want to save the file.
- (Optional) If you do not want a file name based on the study name, enter a file name.
- Select Save.
- In the Export to Text dialog box, do one of the following:
- To export entire pages, select the pages to export.
- To export only certain data from the pages:
- Select the pages.
- On the appropriate pages of the result file, select the checkbox to the left of each item that you want to export.
- In the Items To Be Exported area of the Export to Text (Tab Delimited) dialog box, select the Checked Items Only checkbox. - For more information, see Check items on the pages of a result file.
- To export only the items that were excluded in the report processing, that is, the items filtered by the Peptide And Protein Filter node settings, do the following:
- Select the pages.
- In the Items To Be Exported area of the Export to Text (Tab Delimited) dialog box, select the Excluded Items Only checkbox. - For more information on the node settings, see Peptide and Protein Filter node.
- To export a separate table that links the items in each table to other tables (if they exist), select Item Connections.
- To export items to R, the R Project for Statistical Computing, select Generate R-Friendly Headers.
- If you do not select the Generate R-Friendly Headers option and export data, R replaces the special characters in the headers of the columns on the result report page with dots. If you select this option, R replaces the special characters with more appropriate characters.
- Select Export, or to cancel this operation, select Close.
NOTE
You can open the text file in any text editor or drag it to an open Excel application.