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Exercise 5:
Opening a Plate
Document
Applied Biosystems 7900HT Fast Real-Time PCR System and SDS Enterprise Database User Guide
In this exercise, you will be opening two documents that you will use in the following
exercises: the plate document (from Exercise 3), and a plate document template. The
purpose of this lesson is to familiarize you with the tasks of retrieving plate document
that have been saved to the computer hard drive or the SDS Enterprise Database.
Choose from the procedures below:
• If using a database, save the plate document to the database as described on
page 2-18.
• If you are not using a database, save the plate document to your computer hard
drive as described below.
Opening the SDS Plate Document File
1. Click (or select File > Open).
2. In the Look In field of the Open dialog box, navigate to:
Applied Biosystems/SDS Documents
3. In the Look In field, select the Practice.sds file.
4. Click .
The software opens the Practice.sds file.
5. Select File > Close.
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