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Business Tutorial: Data Axle Reference Solutions

Creating company lists on Data Axle Reference Solutions.

Downloading Company Lists into Excel

1. Refer to "Creating Company Lists" and follow Steps 1 through 9. Click "View Results".

DARS's record count for the number of beauty salons in Boston.

2. Select the companies you want to include in your download. Click the white boxes to the left of the company's name to choose individual businesses, or click on the white box beside "Company Name" to select all of the 25 items on a page.

An alphabetized list of all businesses matching your criteria in DARS. Blue check marks to the left of the establishments' names identify which businesses will be included in the download.

3. Repeat Step 2 until you have all of the businesses you want in your download. Note that Data Axle has an upper limit of 250 downloads per search, and you may not be able to include all of your results. For this example, we will select all of Page 1 and part of Page 2.

4. Click "Download".

A green arrow points to the "Download" option.

5. Select "Excel" for your file format.

A green circle identifies the "Excel" option.

6. Select "Custom" for your level of detail. Click on the information you want to include in your download.

"Custom" is selected from the list of options.

7. Click "Download Records".

A green circle identifies the "Download Records" option.

8. Double-click the download to open the file in Excel.

A green arrow identifies the downloaded file.

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