This table can be displayed by selecting View } Stream Summary Tabled from the main menu or by clicking on the toggle button on the main toolbar of the application. Initially the table be empty to populate you can right click on it and select Edit Contents... from the context menu.
It can display information such as flows conditions, contents and composition on the streams in the vertical columns on the table.
The table may appear docked at the bottom of the main application window or floating on top of the application main window. To make the table appear floating just right click on it and select the Dock option from the context menu.
The right click context menu allows you to perform other actions as well.
See the following table for details on each command of the context menu:
Edit Contents |
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Customize the contents of the table. |
Update |
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Will force the stream table to update its contents. Pro-Designer will automatically update the stream contents when the need arises (e.g. after a M&E balance execution). However, if you feel that the numbers shown are not in sync, you may request the table to update its contents by selecting this option. |
Copy |
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Allows you to copy the selected range of cells. Note that once you have copied a range of cells, you can paste them into MS-Word or MS-Excel (as a spreadsheet) |
Copy All |
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Allows you copy all the cells in the grid. Convenient for copying-and-pasting the entire grid elsewhere as a grid. |
Select All |
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Will select all cells in the grid. Convenient for applying a formatting option to all the cells. |
Format Cells |
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Will present you with a dialog that allows you to modify the display format (style) of the selected cells. Note that this format will overwrite the default style (see Cell Format Dialog). |
Physical Units Format |
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Format Will change the styles used to display each type of physical unit (density, volume, etc.). The styles modified from this dialog will only apply to the selected unit procedure. You can also change the styles so that they apply to all procedures (see Physical Quantities Format Dialog) |
Header Font Styles |
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Will present you with a dialog that allows you to modify the format style of the row and column headers. |
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Allows you to print the entire grid. |
Print Preview |
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Will show a print-preview of the grid before it is printed. |
Hide |
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Will hide the stream summary table. To make it re-appear click on the Stream Summary Table Command button ()on the Main Toolbar. |
Dock |
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If the table is floating it will dock the window to the application window. If it is docked it will make it floating. |
Include in Printing |
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This option is only active if the table is floating (i.e. not docked).Will include or exclude the stream summary table from the printed form of the flowsheet. |
Resize Window to Fit Grid |
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This option is only active if the table is floating (i.e. not docked).Will resize the window such that it exactly surrounds the grid (if screen size allows). It is usually issued right before placing the floating table at the location where the user wished to be included in the printing of the flowsheet. |
Excel Link |
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Edit options for Table to Excel Link (see Link Table to MS-Excel Dialog) |
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Update |
Update data in the linked excel file. |
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Delete |
Delete data in the linked excel file. |
For more information, see The Stream Summary Table.