# Saving a Report

In addition to providing an interactive report FastQC also has the option to create an HTML version of this report for a more permanent record. This HTML report can also be generated directly by running FastQC in non-interactive mode.

To create a report simply select File > Save Report from the main menu. By default a report will be created using the name of the fastq file with _fastqc.zip appended to the end. The report will be created for whichever file tab was active when the menu option was selected.

The report file which is created is actually a zip file. When uncompressed this will create a folder with the same name as the report file. Inside this will be a series of files, but the one to look at is the fastqc_report.html file which links to the other files in the report.