Generating A Quantitation Report - Agilent Technologies 7500 ICP-MS Operator's Manual

Agilent 7500 ICP-MS ChemStation Operator's Manual
Performing a Quantitative Analysis

Generating a Quantitation Report

ChemStation generates a report showing the results of a quantitative analysis in
either of two ways:
• You can tell ChemStation to generate the report automatically each time a method
runs. When you do so, you specify whether to generate a summary or detailed
report, and whether to send the report to the screen, the printer or a file. For
information about how to generate a quantitation report automatically (using a
method), see Chapter 5, "Creating a Method".
• You can create a custom report with the data acquired each time the method runs.
Before you can create a custom report in this way, you must set up a custom report
template. For more information about custom reports and databases, see Chapter
11, "Creating Custom Reports".
• If you did not tell ChemStation to generate a report automatically, you can also
generate a report manually by completing the following steps:
1 Load a data file by selecting Data File>>Load.
Selecting Data File>>Next Data File will load the data file that alphabetically
follows the current data file in the same directory. For example, if the directory
contains the following files:
Soil01.d
Soil02.d
Soil03.d
Water01.d
Water02.d
Water03.d
and soil03.d is currently displayed, selecting Next Data File will load water01.d. If
the current data file is the last one in the directory (in this example water03.d) the
message No Next File is displayed. To initiate this feature, the user must have first
selected a data file from the Load Data File dialog box (from the Data File menu in
Data Analysis).
This menu item is not related to the numbered items near the bottom of the menu,
which display the most recently loaded data files.
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