Hi all,

I'm in the middle of what you could call a 'research project' which involves specialist software and a model of the human body. I want to use the model to obtain hoardes and hoardes of data and copying/pasting is out of the question considering the amount of data I have to collect.

What I'm concerned with is how to take the data from the model and put it into a database or simple spreadsheet without taking months and months. I know very little about this aspect of the research I do but I know that asking a question here can save days even weeks of reading and trial and error mistake making.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can at least offer help or point me in the right direction. And if I'm vague in my request it just shows how little I know. Ask me any questions pertinent to my request.

Stu

I think it would be an issue of what file types software (that the data is currently in) can save the file as.

If it can be saved as a flat file (comma separated; .txt or .csv) then you could import it into Access or Excel.

Are there other file types to save the file as?

hi all,

i'm in the middle of what you could call a 'research project' which involves specialist software and a model of the human body. i want to use the model to obtain hoardes and hoardes of data and copying/pasting is out of the question considering the amount of data i have to collect.

what i'm concerned with is how to take the data from the model and put it into a database or simple spreadsheet without taking months and months. i know very little about this aspect of the research i do but i know that asking a question here can save days even weeks of reading and trial and error mistake making.

thanks in advance to anyone who can at least offer help or point me in the right direction. and if i'm vague in my request it just shows how little i know. ask me any questions pertinent to my request.

stu

As Rick pointed out, the issue is what format the data is in and what format you want to put it in.

I would be inclined to use a database as you have much greater options in analyzing and reporting on the data then you would in a spreadsheet.