How about left-pinky tab--gives you something to do with the left hand;-)
If you are doing serious data entry, how SPSS Data Entry which not only goes across and down but also has cursor momentum and comes with all sorts of tools to do data checking and cleaning?
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Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:35 PM
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Subject: Advice: Changing the direction of data entry?
Dear fellow list members,
I hope that my question counts as technical enough, but this has been
driving me quietly mad for years!
I have been an SPSS user since 1990, in the old days of PC+ and syntax
commands, and have taught SPSS data entry and basic statistical analysis
since then.
In the good old days, one could easily alter the data entry direction
from down the columns to across the rows.
As a social researcher, I am forever entering my data in across rows, as
are the research students I teach.
From SPSS 6 onwards we have been stuck with either using the enter key
to go down the columns, or the right cursor arrow key to go across the
rows.
This puts a strain on the thumb, and does not strike me as very
ergonomic.
Am I missing something? Is there any wasy way to change the data entry
direction of the enter key?
I have recently sent a message to the CHEST-SPSS list, and the Transpose
command was put forward as a possible solution. This is good, but leads
to the loss of all value labels etc etc.
Hoping that you can advise?
With best wishes, Cathy Lisles
Health Economics and Policy Research Unit Faculty of Health, Sport and
Science University of Glamorgan.
Wales. UK
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