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Import and Export Files
Import into a Structured File
1.
Select Tools → Import.
2.
Select the .CSV or .TXT file to import.
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When you are offline and have a project open, you can import tags and logic
comments from a saved .CSV file or .TXT file. This lets you use other
applications (like Microsoft Excel or Notepad) to create and edit tags and logic
comments.
Specify the name for the file to import.
Select the .CSV file or .TXT format.
Select how to handle collisions.
Select whether to match rung comments by
rung number.
Click Import.
When you import tags, the possibility exists for tags in the import file to have
the same name as tags already in the open project. This condition is a collision.
Specify how to handle a collision.
If you want to
Select
Replace tags in the project with tags from the import file, in addition to
adding any new tags from the import file.
Create New Tags & Overwrite Existing Tags
(this is the default selection)
Keep tags that are in the project and discard tags in the import file, in addition Create New Tags & Preserve Existing Tags
to adding any new tags from the import file.
Replace tags in the project with tags from the import file, but do not add any
new tags from the import file.
Skip New Tags & Overwrite Existing Tags
If you delete tags from an import/export file and then import the file, tags are
not deleted from the controller project. You have to use the programming
software to delete tags from the tag list.
Publication 1756-RM084L-EN-P - January 2007