New
The New menu opens a dialog to select a new Probe for EPMA standard database file. This option should only be used when creating a site specific standard composition database for the first time in order to overwrite the supplied demonstration database. The default standard database name must be STANDARD.MDB and this filename should be used in order that Probe for EPMA can access this file for quantitative calculations. Once a site specific standard database has been created it will be automatically loaded each time the Standard program is run.
If the file already exists, the program will prompt the user whether to overwrite the existing file. After the new file has been created the program will display a file information dialog to allow the user the personalize the standard database title and description for the specific site.
The program will automatically append a .MDB extension to the file name if one is not supplied by the user. The .MDB file name indicates Microsoft Database and is a Microsoft Access v. 3.5 database file.
The user can also use this menu to create a new searchable standard database before importing the DHZ.DAT, SRM.DAT or ORE.DAT ASCII files. It is suggested to name the files DHZ.MDB, SRM.MDB and ORE.MDB respectively.