A: Yes, you can export data from Advantage Plus or the wheeling programs by printing to a text file.
You can print your wheeling combinations, or history charts to a text file or Word Document so that you can work
with them outside of our software.
To export an Advantage Plus chart to a text file or Word document:
Generate the chart you are interested in.
Select F2 - Print.
Choose the Print option you want for how much of the chart is printed by using the arrow key and enter or typing the number for the option you want.
Press F to choose Print to a Disk File (See Screenshot 1 below).
Type in your file name (example: chart3.text for a text file or chart3.doc for Word) and press Enter.
Go to the C:\gh folder (or wherever you have the program installed) and find the file that you named.
You can then open it with Notepad, Word, or another text editor.
Screenshot 1
To export a wheel within Wheel Four Gold, Wheel Five Gold, Wheel Six Gold, or Wheel Ten Gold
Save your wheel within the program.
When you see the combinations of your wheel, there is a save button at the bottom.
Click that to save.
Then from the main menu, click the saved wheels tab which is the right-most horizontal tab (highlighted in yellow, Screenshot 2 below) at the top in the Wheel Gold programs.
From the Saved Wheel screen (screenshot 2 below), highlight the saved wheel you want, and right-click and choose Export.
Choose the options you want and continue with export (screenshot 3 below).
It will then prompt you to choose a location to save the file, so be sure to select a location you can find when you're done.
Screenshot 2
Wheel Gold Saved Wheel Screen. The Saved Wheels tab is at the top right in Wheel Gold.
Screenshot 3
Export Options for Wheel Gold.
To export a wheel within
Filtering Full Wheel Generator or Full Wheel Generator Plus:
Save your wheel within the program.
When you see the combinations of your wheel, there is a save button at the bottom.
Click that to save.
Then from the main menu, click the saved wheels tab, which is a vertical tab on the left in FWGP/FFWG
From the Saved Wheel screen (screenshot 4 below), highlight the saved wheel you want, and right-click and choose Export.
Choose the options you want and continue with export (screenshot 5 below).
It will then prompt you to choose a location to save the file, so be sure to select a location you can find when you're done.
Screenshot 4
FFWG's Saved Wheel Screen.
Screenshot 5
For more details, there is a page for this in the FWGP/FFWG built in help manual.
Press F1 to access Help, and go to Exporting Saved Wheels which is under the
Technical Issues section (and also linked to from the Saved Wheels page).
To export a Balanced Wheel® (from older version programs
Wheel Four Plus, Wheel Five Plus, Wheel Six Plus, or Keno Wheel programs)
to a text file or Word document:
Create the combinations for your wheel like you would normally do.
Select F2 - Print.
Type in a reference number (this is only used within the software) and press Enter.
Select F3 - Modify Settings (see Screenshot 6 below).
Use the down arrow key to move down to the "Print to:" field.
Type in your file name (example: whl66007.txt for a text file or 66008.doc for Word) and press Enter.
Press Enter a second time until you are back to your wheel combinations or chart screen.
Go to the C:\gh folder (or wherever you have the program installed) and find the file that you named.
You can then open it with Notepad, Word, or another text editor.
Screenshot 6
To export a Balanced Wheel®
(from older version programs Wheel Four Plus, Wheel Five Plus, Wheel Six Plus, or Keno Wheel programs) to Excel:
First, follow the steps above for exporting a wheel to a text file.
To get the file into MS Excel, you may have to edit out the hyphens.
Open the file you created in Word or Notepad, and do a search and replace (Ctrl-H) of the hyphen (-) with a comma (,).
Save the file and load it into Excel.
