Changing Table labels in SPSS 15.0

[Tim Main]

Hi all,

I work with lots of Frequencies and Crosstabs tables in SPSS. For every
table I have to manually change the label that appears from "Crosstabs" to
the name of the state the table represents (e.g. Alaska).

Is there any way that SPSS can automatically change the labels for my tables
if I write it into the syntax? I would appreciate any suggestions, as I've
been wasting a lot of time changing all the labels by hand!

Thanks!

--Tim

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[la volta statistics]

Hi Tim

I am not sure if I understand what you want. If you just want to have the
variable labels appearing in your cross tabulation, it is simple. Just use
the var label command as in the example below.

DATA LIST LIST /V1 V2.
BEGIN DATA
1 1
2 3
3 2
4 4
5 6
6 5
END DATA.

Var Label V1 'Alaska'.
Var Label V2 'Ohio'.


CROSSTABS
  /TABLES=V1  BY V2
  /FORMAT= AVALUE TABLES
  /CELLS= COUNT
  /COUNT ROUND CELL .

However, if you want to change the title of the resulting table, I could
send you a script, that could be invoked by syntax to achieve such a task.

Christian


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Hi all,

I work with lots of Frequencies and Crosstabs tables in SPSS. For every
table I have to manually change the label that appears from "Crosstabs" to
the name of the state the table represents (e.g. Alaska).

Is there any way that SPSS can automatically change the labels for my tables
if I write it into the syntax? I would appreciate any suggestions, as I've
been wasting a lot of time changing all the labels by hand!

Thanks!

--Tim

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[Peck, Jon]

It sounds like there is a split file problem in here.  If you do
SORT CASES  BY state.
SPLIT FILE SEPARATE BY state.

Then your commands will produce a separate table for each state, and the title will be something like
State = Alaska.

HTH,
Jon Peck

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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Changing Table labels in SPSS 15.0

Hi all,

I work with lots of Frequencies and Crosstabs tables in SPSS. For every
table I have to manually change the label that appears from "Crosstabs" to
the name of the state the table represents (e.g. Alaska).

Is there any way that SPSS can automatically change the labels for my tables
if I write it into the syntax? I would appreciate any suggestions, as I've
been wasting a lot of time changing all the labels by hand!

Thanks!

--Tim

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