Please note - ViaTexas.com is no longer selling business leads. The sample below is provided as an example of our product for prospective purchasers of ViaTexas.com
Click on the free sample link below and your web browser will automatically
download a list that has 100 records in it so you can see what you are getting.
The download is in zip file format, so you'll need an unzip utility to unzip
the text file inside - The reason for this is because our new lists we offer
for sale are also in zip format.
Click here to download the Free Sample
If you are using Windows, the most popular unzip utility is
WinZip. For tips on how to use WinZip, please see their
support site
The sample file contains headings and 100 listings from a past issue of one of
our master lists. If you open the file in your word processor or web browser,
the columns will not line up and things will appear messy. Don't worry about
that though, since all those punctuation marks will make things come together
for mail merge and other functions in your programs. If you change the file
extension to ".csv", most spreadsheets will automatically pop everything in
order for easy viewing (be sure to change it back to ".txt" for easier use by
mail merge and database programs).
We developed our lists to be simple and made them open to all applications that
can use plain text files. The text is arranged so it can be displayed easily in
rows and columns. Each row is a "record" and each column in the row is a
"field." The fields line up as columns and the first row contains the name of
each column. Each field is separated from its neighbor by a comma, so this kind
of data list is called "Comma Delimited Text" and the first row contains the
headings for the columns. The information in each field is enclosed in quotes
so that the commas and other punctuations don't confuse your program. These
quotation marks are called "text qualifiers." Not to worry, most of the
programs you use will automatically know this from the headings we use.
Preparing the lists in this fashion makes them usable by just about every kind
of program in use today, and many programs use it automatically.
We also have the sample viewable in Microsoft
Excel format and HTML format .
Go back to our Tools page for links on how to use a
text file in many common applications.