View Your Notes and Markers Following a Session

After observing and logging a session, you may want to have quick access to the notes and markers you created during the session. This tutorial explains how to save and view your markers and notes immediately after a session.

See the following topics for more information:

Save Your Notes and Markers

  1. Prior to a session, open Observer and verify that Prompt to save copy of log in the Marker menu is checked.
     Prompt to save copy of log option in Marker menu
  2. Proceed with the session, logging markers and notes.
    Observer log example
  3. After you disconnect from the session, you are prompted to save your log. Browse to the location to save your log and click Save. The file is saved as a .txt file which is a text only file.

View Your Notes and Markers

You can open your log as plain text in a program such as Microsoft® Word® or Microsoft® Notepad, or for easier viewing, as a table in Microsoft Excel®.

To open a .txt file in Excel:

  1. Open Excel and choose File > Open.
  2. Choose Text Files in the Files of type drop-down list.
    Open text file option in Excel
  3. Select the file you want to open and click Open.
  4. A message appears that Excel does not recognize the file format. Click OK to continue.
  5. Follow the steps in the Text Import Wizard.
    Microsoft Excel Text Import Wizard

The log opens in Excel.

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