Save Digital Data to a Text File

I have digital data collected from two ports simultaneously as N number of samples in waveform that I do calculations on to get a result. I would like to save the raw data in a text file so that it can be easily viewed in an external program, like Excel. This file would be used as verification of the result calculated in my program. I would think this would be a simple thing to do in labview but as yet have not figured it out. I’ve tried to change the digital to analog and then save as a text file but the data no longer gives the same results when recalculated in an external program. Thanks for any input on this subject.
Tessa

I am using 8.20.
Thanks, Tessa
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