.Export items selected in Results Navigator directly to Excel, copy and paste graph images to another application or print them, or save the underlying data upon which a graph is based to disk in either EDIN format or in a third-party format. For details on exporting to third-party formats, see Related topics below.
When you save a graph, just like any Output window or Query Editor, the query on which it's based and the IDs of items are saved in a single file that can be opened using either Query Editor or an Output window.
The following tasks are covered in this topic:
| Save a graph item | Copy a graph image |
| Export data to Excel | Print a graph image |
Using Results Navigator, select a single item to export, and then from the Tools menu, click Send To Excel .
If you select more than one item in Data Navigator, each successive item overwrites the previous one in Excel.
If not already open, Excel automatically launches and the data and column headers associated with the data item selected in Data Navigator appear in an Excel worksheet.
To export additional data items without overwriting the data items already exported, select a blank cell outside of the range of previously exported data items, or select a totally different worksheet, then select a different item in Data Navigator and export it.
1. From the Edit menu, click Copy Graph Image.
2. In the desired application, place your cursor where you want to paste the graph image and from that application's Edit menu, click Paste.
Repeat the above step to paste the image in multiple applications or locations.
1. Using Results Navigator, select the item to print. You can only print one graph at a time.
2. From the File menu, click Page Setup and in the Page Setup dialog box, ensure the page orientation and margins are as desired, and then click OK.
3. From the File menu, click Print and in the Print dialog box, select the desired print options, and then click OK.
Regardless of whether you select a print range of All or Selection in the Print dialog box, only the graph currently displayed in the graph display pane is printed.
1. Using Results Navigator, select the item to save. Regardless of how many items are selected, you can only save one graph image at a time.
2. From the Edit menu, click Save graph image to file and in the Save dialog box, browse to a location and type an intuitive name, and then click OK.
1. With the items to save selected in Data Navigator, from the File menu, click Save 
, or Save As if you don't want to overwrite a previously saved file.
2. Browse to the desired location, type an intuitive name for the file, and then click OK.
| About Data Navigator | Displaying graphs |
| About the Export window | Creating graph templates |