Forum Post: Exporting blobs as ASCII instead of hex

Hi, I've got an existing table which has a number of blobs in it which I need to read as ASCII. I have two questions: 1) They show up in the view as hex - if I click on them it lets me view them as ASCII but it makes scanning through the data tricky. Is there a way to have them viewed in the table as ASCII? 2) More importantly, when I export to excel / csv they are formatted as hex - I can do a manual conversion but there a lot of data and the rows are comparatively large (1500+ characters) so using a formula to convert isn't really feasible. Is there a way to export directly as ASCII? I noticed this question had been asked previously but that was in 2012 and got absolutely no replies. Thanks in advance.