File Associations; Startup; Data Encoding; Export Settings - Measurement Computing USB-5100 Series Software Help

USB-5100 Series Software Help

File Associations

Use this preference to control the association of USB-5100 Series file types on Windows.
Note
You must have administrator privileges on the computer to change file type associations. To temporarily run
USB-5100 Series as an Administrator, right-click the USB-5100 Series icon and select Run as Administrator.
Enter the Administrator name and password as prompted.
By default, files with the extensions of
Series. This means that these files are identified by a USB-5100 Series icon and can be opened by double-
clicking them. Click
Map

Startup

Show splash screen on startup
screen displays every time you open the software.

Data Encoding

Data encoding controls how special characters are displayed in files that are exported from USB-5100 Series.
The default is to use UTF-8, a common character encoding protocol for software. Select
characters are not displaying correctly in exported files in Windows.

Export Settings

Use the Export Settings preferences to customize how data is formatted when you export the table data from a
plotted data file, to set up automatic export upon readout, to include plot details in an exported file, and to set
export ordering rules.
To access these settings, complete the following steps:
1. Select File»Preferences
2. Select
General»Export Settings
3. Change any settings described below and then click

Export file type:
Microsoft Excel file (

Export table data column separator:
you selected Excel for the export file type, then this option is disabled.) Select Comma, Tab, or Semicolon.
When Comma is selected as the column separator, the data is saved to a
Excel. When Tab or Semicolon is selected, the data is saved to a

Include line number column:
do not want line numbers in the file.

Include plot title in header:
the exported file.

Always show fractional seconds:
data points.

Separate date and time into two columns:
exported as a single column to facilitate graphing in spreadsheet programs. Select this checkbox to split the
date and time into two columns.

No quotes or commas in headings, properties in parenthesis:
quotations marks and commas in the exported file's column headers. Sensor properties, or units, (such as °F
or RH) are listed in parenthesis instead of quotation marks when this setting is enabled.

Include logger serial number:
column header in the exported file. This is useful if you are exporting data series that were copied and
pasted from plots that originally came from different loggers.
,
.hob .hsec
or to change the file type associations.
UnMap
checkbox : This preference controls whether the USB-5100 Series splash
(Windows) or USB-5100 Series Software»Preferences
.
Select how you want exported data to be saved: either to a text file (
).
.xls
This setting controls the column separator for exported text files. (If
By default, exported files include line numbers. Clear this checkbox if you
Clear this checkbox if you do not want the plot title included in the header of
Select this checkbox to show fractional seconds in the time-stamped
When this setting is enabled, the logger's serial number is listed in each
, and are automatically associated with USB-5100
.hproj
.
OK
file.
.txt
By default, the date and time of a logged data point is
Select this checkbox if you do not want
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Preferences
Windows default
(Macintosh).
or
.csv .txt
file that can be imported into
.csv
if
) or a