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Transferring your data to other programs
This feature is intended for experts or those with special
circumstances. Transferring your data to your desktop computer
is much simpler with our Diabetes Pilot Desktop software.
We recommend using our Desktop software to transfer your data,
rather than this export function.
Diabetes Pilot allows you to transfer your data from your handheld
to other programs on your desktop computer. This feature is useful
for showing the data to your doctor, printing it, analyzing it,
graphing trends, making a backup or permanent record of the data,
and other purposes.
The export functions allows you to get the data out of Diabetes
Pilot and into any other program. Here is one way that these feature
can be used:
- Launch Diabetes Pilot and display the records that you want
to transfer by using the filter controls at the top of the main
screen.
- Choose "Export Data to MemoPad" or "Export Meals to MemoPad"
from the reports menu. Select the details you would like included
in the message box that appears. The records will be exported
to the Palm MemoPad.
- HotSync your handheld with your computer. This will transfer
the memopad entry to the corresponding location on your computer.
The exact location will vary depending on your particular setup.
If you're using the standard "Palm Desktop" program (or an equivalent),
it will be in the memo portion of the Palm Desktop program. If
you've set up your palm to sync memos with Outlook or another
program, then you should find the memo in the memo section of
that program.
- Find and open the memo on your computer (see above).
- Highlight all of the text of the memo. Then, select "copy"
from the edit menu. Alternately, (this is generally easier) click
on the highlighted text with the right mouse button and select
"copy".
Now, you can paste the data into whatever desktop program you would
like. Microsoft Word or Excel are good candidates, but there are
many other possibilities. We generally prefer Excel for working
with data tables, but there's nothing wrong with using Word (or
any other program) if you're more familiar with it.
Here are some specific instructions for these programs:
Microsoft Word
- Start Word. Select "Paste" from the "Edit" menu. The data will
be pasted into your document.
- If you'd like to format the data as a nice table, highlight
the text you just pasted (by holding down the mouse button and
dragging) and go to the "Table" menu. Select "Convert", then "Text
to Table".
- A window will appear. Choose "Separate text at commas" and click
ok. Your data should be formatted into a nice table. You can then
edit, print, and save the document however you'd like.
Excel
- Start Excel. Select "Paste" from the "Edit" menu. The data
will be pasted into your document. Excel should paste the data
should into individual cells automatically. You can then edit,
format, print, and chart the data however you'd like.
- If for some reason the data is not automatically separated into
individual cells when you paste it, highlight the pasted data
in Excel. Then, from the "data" menu, select "text to columns".
Choose "delimited", then "next", then "comma", then "finish".
The data will be separated into cells.
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