When I try that (changing .tab to .txt in the name of the file to be exported) I get the popup message "You cannot save this document with extension '.txt" at the end of the name. The required extension is '.tab'."
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Richard S. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2014 Jul 6, at 19:43, Charles Hartley <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is just for simple exports where I need to save one or more fields to > a text file that I can then mess around with the results using BBEdit. > Since FMP13 will not export as a .txt file, I've set the .tab file format > to always open with BBEdit. > > I was just wondering if there was a way to do the .txt file, but I guess > not. > > Thanks, > Charlie > > > > You can set “Type” to “tab-separated text” (my preferred format) but > nonetheless manually replace “.tab” with “.txt” in the *name* of the file > to be exported. >
