Purchasers of transformers are requesting the associated certified test reports in many different formats. It would be in the best interest of all concerned to standardize on the required information and format in an electronic medium because errors could be introduced when a supplier of this informnation must go from one format to anotherre; the terms used in describing data in the test report can be misleading; and a standard format will make the development of test report data generating and data analyzing software easier, more efficient, more accurate and more widely available.