4.2.6. Saving a document

All documents can be saved as ELAN files (*.eaf, “EUDICO Annotation Format”). This includes documents that were created by ELAN itself (see Section 4.2.1) as well as documents that were imported into ELAN from Shoebox/Toolbox, CHAT or Transcriber (see Section 4.2.17, Section 4.2.16 or Section 4.2.15). To save a document as an ELAN file:

  1. Either use the menu options:

    1. Click on File menu.

    2. Click on Save or Save as.

  2. Or use the shortcut key CTRL+S.

[Note]Note

Apart from the *.eaf file, a *.pfs file will be written as well. This file contains user and document specific settings like the font size used to display text. The *.pfs file can however be safely removed as it does not contain any annotation data.