Saving or exporting your search results

Save search results and a More results citation to My Data, or export just search results to a file.

To select the main snippets to either save to My Data or to export, click the check box to the left of the item(s) in the query results pane, and then click the Save drop-down arrow in the top-right of the query results pane.

Click for details on My Data.

  1. With the desired search results displayed, select the check box to the left of the desired main snippet(s) to select them, and then click Save > Save to My Data in the top-right of the results pane.
  • The More results item(s), which appear when you click More below a search result item, can also be saved to My Data. Click the radio button to the left of the desired item, and then click Save > Save to My Data in the top-right of the results pane.

  1. The Save to My Data dialog box appears prompting you to select an existing collection or create a new collection in which to save the selected items.

  1. Where you selected multiple check boxes to the left of more than one main snippet query result item, when you click Save > Save to My Data in the top-right above the query results pane, the Save to My Data dialog box includes the following options below the Collections pane:
  • All results on this page
  • All results
  • Only selected results
  1. Click Add Annotation to type a comment that can be searched when you query My Data collections, and then click Save. If multiple items are selected above, the annotation is applied to each of them.

Output a single query result item or multiple query result items to a file on your hard drive in one of the following formats:

  • Excel (.xlsx extension)
  • Microsoft Word (.docx extension)
  • CSV
  • PDF
  1. With the desired search results displayed, select the check box to the left of the desired main snippet(s) to select them, and then click Save > Export in the top-right of the results pane.

The More results item(s), which appear when you click More below a search result item, cannot be exported, only saved to your My Data collection.

  1. The Export Results dialog box, which prompts you to select a file format, and whether to include the document summary appears.
  2. Where you selected the check box to the left of more than one main snippet query result item and then clicked Save > Export in the top-right above the query results pane, the Export Results dialog box includes the following options below the Export to pane:
  • All results on this page
  • All results
  • Only selected results.
  1. Click Export, and then follow the directions that your browser gives you for downloading data to a file.

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