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title: Browse Mode Features
slug: help/en-us/dairycomp/browse-mode-features
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createdAt: 2026-01-26T11:43:17.354Z
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The Grid and Report pages of DairyComp make significant use of Browse Mode—a display style that presents the page contents in a scrollable, standardized format. On pages that use Browse Mode, you can use the arrow keys or the **PgUp**, **PgDn**, **Home**, and **End** keys to move up, down, left, or right, respectively. Pressing **Ctrl+End** goes to the end of the page, while **Ctrl+Home** brings you to the beginning. 

Pressing the **Esc** key while a command is in progress aborts the command and returns you to Browse Mode. If you press the **Esc** key again, you return to a command prompt or menu.

When generating a report with the LIST command and printing is enabled, the report prints using the configured printer settings and then displays the Grid and Report pages in Browse Mode.

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## Print in Browse Mode

Pressing the **P** key on a page in Browse Mode prints the contents of the current page. If printing is disabled (from the SETUP command or toggling the Prt option in the status line to **Prt OFF**), LIST commands behave as SHOW commands and immediately display the Grid page.

You can print the contents of most pages by clicking the **Print** button :inlineImage[]{src="https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/3h8pSJcGUXEi4HGCCYPTA/ksSSPwajaUgUPvkzcg32x_print.png" alt caption size="10" width="20" height="18"} on the toolbar or selecting **Print** from the File menu.
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## Export contents in Browse Mode

Pressing the **F** key on a page in Browse Mode exports the page contents to a generic file format. Using this method, you must also include the file format suffix (such as `.txt`, including the period) when naming the export.

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You can also export the contents to a generic file format by selecting the **Save Report** button :inlineImage[]{src="https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/3h8pSJcGUXEi4HGCCYPTA/epo3ULCmkuqLaejJCShFX_save.png" alt caption size="10" width="25" height="23"} in the toolbar.

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**NOTE: **If you save the file without the format suffix, the file generates in an unusable file format. To fix this issue, rename the file (press the **F2** key with the file selected) with the desired suffix. The file then converts to that format.
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If you export a second file with the F key or the Save Report button, selecting the original file (as if you were replacing it) causes three options to display in DairyComp:

- Overwrite
- Append to the end
- Enter new file name

To export the file in a specific format, click the drop-down arrow next to the Save Report button and click an option.

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## Perform a text search in Browse Mode

To search for a text string or animal ID on a Browse Mode page, press the **F9** key.

On the Grid page, you can also press **Ctrl+F** as you would in other Windows applications. On the Report page, pressing the **equal sign** key (=) also opens the Find text window.
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## Jump to the CowCard

As illustrated in the video below, clicking an animal ID or pressing the **F2** key with the animal's data row selected on the Grid or Report pages immediately displays the CowCard for that animal.

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To quickly return to the Grid page, press the **Escape** key from the CowCard.

If you entered or changed any data in the CowCard, the report automatically regenerates to reflect those changes.
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## Edit items from Browse Mode

Double-clicking a stored item displayed on the Grid or Report pages opens the **Enter** window, as demonstrated in the video below.

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Pressing the **Enter** key with a new value changes the item on both the report and the animal's CowCard.
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## Sort a report in Browse Mode

When you view a report in Browse Mode, you can click a column header to sort the entire report by that column. If you click the column header again, the report is sorted in the reverse order.

Not all reports support sorting—this feature works best with LIST or SHOW commands but may not work at all for MONITOR or BREDSUM commands.
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## When clicks don't work

Once you exit a report and return to the command line, the report is no longer "active", and certain clicking options (like entering or sorting) will no longer work. To quickly regenerate the report, you can retrieve your last command by clicking the command line and pressing the **F4** key or the Up and Down arrow keys on your keyboard.
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