Hi folks, Recently two separate people requested that Athena write a summary of the various parameters into the header of the column output files for mu(E), chi(k), and so on. That's a great idea and the next version of Athena will do this. In the interim, I wanted to point out a feature of Athena that some of you may not be familiar with. At the bottom of the Edit menu is a submenu called "Write a report." A report is a summary either of all groups or of the marked groups. There are three different output formats, but I suspect that most people will prefer the Excel spreadsheet format. Rather than explain it further, I'll leave you to give it go. The .xls file that gets written should be readable by any version of Excel as well as OpenOffice, Gnumeric, and Kspread. HTH B P.S. The final option in the "Edit->Write a report" menu is a peculiar output file that is of interest to folks who use Athena to process their data but who prefer XFit to Artemis for the analysis. -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 405 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 2268 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 4642 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/