PubMed Search Results Can Be Saved to Excel

It is possible to save your PubMed search results to an Excel spreadsheet.  After receiving search results and selecting those you wish to save to Excel, click on the “Send to” link at the top of the results page, towards the right-hand side.Choose the “File” option and from the “Format” drop-down menu, select the “CSV” option.

Then click on the “Create File” button.  On the “File Download” screen, click on the “Save” button.  On the “Save As” screen, give the file an appropriate name, save on the Desktop and click on the “Save” button.  On the “Download complete” screen, click on the “Open” button and your search results will open in an Excel spreadsheet.

You will have to edit the Excel spreadsheet and change some column widths and some column headings.