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Plain Text is a format that opens in Notepad or Microsoft Excel depending on the file extension you use in the filePath parameter of the Export method. Use the extension .txt to open files in Notepad, or use .csv to open comma separated value files in Excel. The Text export filter has a number of useful properties that allow you to control your output. You can set the properties either in code using the TextExport object after adding reference to the following assembly in your project, or by selecting the object in the toolbox and adding it to the component tray below the Form which automatically adds this assembly to the project:

GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Xml.dll

Property	Valid Values	Description
Encoding	System.Text.ASCIIEncoding (default), System.Text.UnicodeEncoding, System.Text.UTF7Encoding, or System.Text.UTF8Encoding	This property can only be set in code. Enter an enumerated system encoding value to use for character encoding.
PageDelimiter	String	Enter a character or sequence of characters to mark the end of each page.
QuotationSymbol	Char	Enter a character to use as quotation mark in the exported text file. Only fields with delimiter characters are quoted.
SuppressEmptyLines	True (default) or False	Set to False if you want to keep empty lines in the exported text file. Otherwise, white space is removed.
TextDelimiter	String	Enter a character or sequence of characters to mark the end of each text field. This is mainly for use with CSV files that you open in Excel.

Text

Usage:

Create plain text files
Create comma (or other character) delimited text files
Feed raw data to spreadsheets or databases
Open in Notepad or Excel (comma delimited)

Does not support anything but plain fields and labels:

Supports plain text only with no formatting other than simple delimiters
Supports encoding for foreign language support