Exporting

the default exporting settings are shown below in many cases these settings can also be changed within the export screens, but any changes within those screens are temporary, with the export preference setting used to update the default settings conditional formatting colour scheme this is a selection for the colour scheme that will be used for the conditional formatting on excel files when extracted from the pedigree extract preferred export format sets the default format for output files to either excel or text on the choose outputs screen you may override this pre chosen options in the optional fields tab on the choose outputs screen during data extraction preferred excel file format allows you to set the format for exported excel files to either excel 97 2007 ( xls) or excel 2007 or later ( xlsx) the format that is set will be the format of excel files that are extracted using either the choose outputs screen or the export to box on browse screens the format of excel files produced using the 'export to' option on browse screens can only be set using this setting, and cannot be changed at time of export preferred text file format allows you to set the default format of exported text files to be either comma delimited or tab delimited the format that is set will be the format of text files that are extracted using either the choose outputs screen or the export to box on browse screens the format of text files produced using the 'export to' option on browse screens can only be set using this setting, and cannot be changed at time of export text file name extension sets the format for exported text files to either csv or txt this option will be automatically set by the preferred text file format setting