# Saving text to notepad and excel
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093 "2020-03-05T22:26:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@allmusicman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/allmusicman)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/1 "2020-03-05T22:26:42Z")
hello,
when i import an album,how do i save the text to notepad and excel before i begin to remove the tags ?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/2 "2020-03-05T23:16:25Z")
You can use the Export feature via Ctrl+E, e.g., with the CSV export. Please make sure to include all the fields you need to export.
As an example, if you also want to export genre values, add `;%genre%` to the line with the other placeholders in the CSV export configuration.
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### Author:  [@allmusicman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/allmusicman)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/3 "2020-03-06T00:34:10Z")
im sorry,but i dont understand?
where is the csv export ?
i highlighted contents of directory hit cntl+E and notepad appeared in source folder with 5 columns of "dashes" all the way down?
thanks for helping but can you elaborate please?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/4 "2020-03-06T06:21:04Z")
> [@allmusicman](#):
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> i highlighted contents of directory hit cntl+E and notepad appeared
Are we talking about the same program "Mp3tag"?
Ctrl-E opens the dialogue to select an export script - and not Notepad.
In this dialogue select the CSV script - and edit it if you need to append the list of fields.
If you feel uneasy about this approach ... perhaps it is not really necessary to remove the complete tag but simply edit specific fields.
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### Author:  [@allmusicman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/allmusicman)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/5 "2020-03-06T11:33:05Z")
all ok now on that problem thanks for your help.
one question please.
when i clear the directory,next time i use mp3tag it reloads
after each session how do i clear it for good!
what am i doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/6 "2020-03-06T13:21:57Z")
> [@allmusicman](#):
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> when i clear the directory,next time i use mp3tag it reloads
> [@Past files that I worked on re-appears when I start new mp3tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224/2):
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> In its standard configuration, Mp3tag loads whichever directory was loaded in the previous session. If you want to use another fixed (and possibly empty) directory as a startup directory for Mp3tag, you can configure a favorite directory at "Options \> Directories" and enable the "start from this directory" checkbox.
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### Author:  [@allmusicman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/allmusicman)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/7 "2020-03-06T13:36:04Z")
thanks for your help
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/saving-text-to-notepad-and-excel/48093/8 "2020-04-05T13:36:05Z")
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