You can output the metadata for these resources in four ways:

• For the screen: This prints the metadata in a format that is designed to look good on the screen and also when printed on paper.
• To copy to a file: This is almost the same as the screen option, except that it does not use tables, so it looks better when saved to a file. It will also be easier to edit. Use your browser to save this output as a text file (*.txt). Then you can open the text file in your favorite word processor.
• In citation format: We recommend this format for citing archived resources in articles or in your CV.
• To read into a spreadsheet: This option produces the metadata in fields separated by semi-colons. The value for each field is enclosed in quotes. You should be able to save this output to a text file and then load it into a spreadsheet. The first line is the header with the titles for the fields.
  Warning: Do NOT use the browser's Save button to save this output. It will add line breaks that mess up the spreadsheet.
  Follow the steps shown below to transfer the metadata to a spreadsheet. The example given is for Microsoft Excel, but other spreadsheet programs should work similarly.
  After you choose 'To load into a spreadsheet':
  1. Choose 'Select All' on the Edit menu of your browser to select (highlight) all of the text in the window.
  2. Choose 'Copy' on the Edit menu to copy all of the selected text to the buffer.
  3. Open a text editor (Notepad for Windows; TextEdit for Macs) and choose 'Paste' on the Edit menu to paste the selected text into the editor.
  4. Save the file. We'll call this one 'my_metadata.txt'.
  5. Open the text file in the spreadsheet program (MS Excel in this example.) You may have to specify that you want to see files of All Types.
  6. Excel will start its Text Import Wizard. On the first page, tell it you have a Delimited file. The default values are fine for the other fields.
  7. On the next page, it wants to know how your file is delimited. Uncheck 'Tab' and check 'Semicolon.' The rest should be OK.
  8. On the next page, be sure to set the Column Data Format to 'Text' instead of 'General' or it will not display dates and durations correctly.
  9. Click 'Finish' on the last page and you're done.