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3-14 Getting Started
Exercise 5: Closing a Plate Document
When finished viewing or editing a plate document, you will need to close it. If the
plate document has been altered since last saving it, the software will prompt you to
save the document. In the following procedure, you will close the template document
opened in Exercise 3.
To close a plate document:
Step Action
1 From the File menu, select Close.
2 If prompted to save the plate document, click No.
The SDS software closes the file without saving it.
Exercise 6: Importing Setup Table Data into a Plate Document
As a time-saving device, the SDS software allows you to import a setup table
information into a plate document from an exported tab-delimited text file. To illustrate
this feature, import the plate grid setup information contained in the Practice.txt file
(from Exercise 4) into the empty plate document created in Exercise 1.
To import a setup table file into an empty plate document:
Step Action
1 If the plate document from Exercise 1 is still open, go to step 2. Otherwise, create a
new plate document to receive the setup table data as follows:
a. From the File menu, select New.
b. Configure the New Document dialog box with settings for the new template.
Drop-Down List Select…
Assay Absolute Quantification
Container 384 Wells Clear Plate
Template Blank Template
c. Click OK.
The software displays a new plate document with appropriate attributes.
2 Choose one of the following options:
♦ Click the Import button ( ) from the General toolbar, or
♦ From the File menu, select Import.
3 From the Look In text field of the Import dialog box, select the Practice.txt file
createdinExercise4.
4 Click Import.
The software imports the setup information of the Practice.txt file into the plate grid
and table of the empty plate document.
Note For more information on importing and exporting setup table data using the
SDS software, see Appendix B, “Importing and Exporting Plate Document Data.”