VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

Viewing a Report
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7. If you desire, use the First Heading and Last Heading options to place report heading lines in
the first page of the PC file and to exclude downloading of headings on subsequent pages.
8. Press F6, Execute Download. VISTA passes the report to Sheetmate to translate into the
specified format. VISTA then downloads the translated report to your PC.
9. Press Enter to initiate the download. VISTA checks the PC Format field and formats the
document according to the specified value. The formatted file is downloaded to your PC.
Downloading Merged Files
This section provides instructions on downloading data previously held in the buffer to a PC file.
1. From the VISTA Functions menu, select Download Report, and press Enter or F6, Select.
2. Specify the fully-qualified PC file name to which you want the report downloaded. Reports
downloaded to an existing PC file will overwrite the file.
3. Use the First Heading and Last Heading options to place report heading lines in the first page
of the PC file. You do not need to specify a From Page and a To Page.
4. Enter the word COMMA or TAB in the Column Divider field. Entering TAB makes the
report tab-delimited.
5. Press F3, Download Hold. The data in the hold buffer is downloaded to the specified PC file.