When I try that (changing .tab to .txt in the name of the file to be
exported) I get the popup message "You cannot save this document with
extension '.txt" at the end of the name. The required extension is '.tab'."


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Richard S. Russell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>
> On 2014 Jul 6, at 19:43, Charles Hartley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> This is just for simple exports where I need to save one or more fields to
> a text file that I can then mess around with the results using BBEdit.
> Since FMP13 will not export as a .txt file, I've set the .tab file format
> to always open with BBEdit.
>
> I was just wondering if there was a way to do the .txt file, but I guess
> not.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
>
>
> You can set “Type” to “tab-separated text” (my preferred format) but
> nonetheless manually replace “.tab” with “.txt” in the *name* of the file
> to be exported.
>