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Working with files and reports

ANY-maze experiment files

In ANY-maze, each experiment you work with is stored in its own individual file, and so to do anything useful, you first have to create or open a file.

In fact, as every experiment is stored in a file, ANY-maze tends to just refer to experiments rather than experiment files, but the two terms in this context are synonymous.

For full details about working with experiment files, refer to the following topics:

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Creating new experiments

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Opening existing experiments

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Saving experiments

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Filing options

ANY-maze protocol files

Although on a day-to-day basis you'll be working with experiment files, as described above, all experiments are based on a protocol, and this protocol must be set up before you can perform an experiment.

Once a protocol has been set up for an experiment, you can save it (separately from the experiment itself) as a protocol file, which means that you can reuse this protocol for as many experiments as you like. In future, instead of having to set up your experiment from scratch again, you can just create a new experiment based on an existing protocol, which is obviously much quicker!

For full details about working with protocol files, refer to the following topics:

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Saving and loading protocols

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Creating new experiments

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Filing options

Working with reports and data

As you'd expect, reports that you can view on screen can also be printed, copied to the Windows clipboard, saved in files or even sent in e-mails. In the latter two cases, ANY-maze can create HTML versions of its reports - this means that the report can be viewed using a web browser on any type of computer, including Apple Macs.