Lightroom Sharpening & Exporting

Two questions:
1. When I look at an image in the Library view, has the Sharpening settings been applied in that view or is that purely direct from the Camera RAW? In other words, when I switch to the Develop view and open Detail - are those default settings only seen in the Develop or are they actually being shown in the Library view as the defaults?
2. On the Library view, I see two buttons marked "Import" and "Export" - is there a way to get the "Export" button to show up in the Develop view or do I always have to go to the top menu and do a "File/Export" in that view? Seems like having a big "Export" button in the Develop view would be nice.
Thanks

In the Develop Module <Import> and <Export> are available via >File > Import Photos or Export.
WW

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We notice in general, that even within the same color space, images do not look the same in Photoshop as they did in Lightroom. That is an issue, they should at least look very close.
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Frank Scallo Jr wrote:
The thing is guys - Once a file is sized down it WILL lose sharpening - what we are doing is sharpening the full size RAW file or rather what the full size output would be like. Once we export a version sized down it will lose some of the 'bite'. LR has sharpening options on 'output' which is not only smart but a necessity. Adobe realizes that output for screen needs another sharpen. Apple either doesn't know or didn't bother. It makes ANY output for screen less than best.
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Thanks

No sharpening at all during my export, Ian. Sometimes I sharpen for screen at a standard strength, but I turned it off when I started seeing the extra artifacts but the results of the exports remains basically the same with or without sharpening.
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Ok...
LIghtroom is not exporting my changes!
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