FW: Printing issues with SPSS

[Thew, Barbara-2]

Can anyone offer a solution:

The standard output of an ANOVA is pages and pages of stuff, most of which I do not want yet I cannot specify defaults as to which analyses are conducted. Instead I have to go through deleting each separate section again ... and again ... and again. Tables are spread over several pages (width ways and length ways) and to avoid this you have to navigate within several menus .... FOR EVERY SINGLE TABLE. Of which there may be many.

Tables cannot be dragged around to maximise the amount of useful information per page (for example in SuperAnova which I used to use and which was WONDERFUL you could drag two tables to be side by side and drag across margins to shrink or extend to squeeze stuff in). I hate wasting paper but I also put some value on my time so why do I have to battle every time I want to print something out to get it down to a sensible printout size?

Thank you

Barbara

Barbara Thew
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[Jon K Peck]

If you want to eliminate entire tables in the ANOVA output, you can use OMS to suppress them from the Viewer.  Or use OMS to suppress all the output and a second OMS request to unsuppress just the few you want.

You can also use the SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command available from SPSS Developer Central (www.spss.com/devcentral) to hide or delete all tables of designated types after they are produced in case you want to look at them first and then prepare a smaller set of output for printing.  (Requires the Python programmability plug-in and at least V17 of SPSS Statistics).

The SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES extension command can suppress particular columns or rows in specified tables.  It can also set column widths if you want to narrow some tables.

You can also reorder the output to put the tables in a sequence you want, although you cannot do side-by-side layouts.  The reordering can be done interactively, or it could be automated with a script.

HTH,

Jon Peck
SPSS, an IBM Company
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From:	"Thew, Barbara" <[hidden email]>
To:	[hidden email]
Date:	05/14/2010 07:30 AM
Subject:	[SPSSX-L] FW: Printing issues with SPSS
Sent by:	"SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]>

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Can anyone offer a solution:

The standard output of an ANOVA is pages and pages of stuff, most of which I do not want yet I cannot specify defaults as to which analyses are conducted. Instead I have to go through deleting each separate section again ... and again ... and again. Tables are spread over several pages (width ways and length ways) and to avoid this you have to navigate within several menus .... FOR EVERY SINGLE TABLE. Of which there may be many.

Tables cannot be dragged around to maximise the amount of useful information per page (for example in SuperAnova which I used to use and which was WONDERFUL you could drag two tables to be side by side and drag across margins to shrink or extend to squeeze stuff in). I hate wasting paper but I also put some value on my time so why do I have to battle every time I want to print something out to get it down to a sensible printout size?

Thank you

Barbara

Barbara Thew
Customer Support Services
Computing Services
University of Liverpool

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[Keith McCormick]

Jon's answer will be the most important advice to follow through on, although there is a 2nd action you might consider to cut down on printed pages. Go to Edit ... Options, and consider changing the setting of some of the output to "initially hidden". Often information like Logs, and Text Output are useful, but not desirable to print. This will shrink greatly the gaps in between your tables, and reduce your printout.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Jon K Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

If you want to eliminate entire tables in the ANOVA output, you can use OMS to suppress them from the Viewer.  Or use OMS to suppress all the output and a second OMS request to unsuppress just the few you want.

You can also use the SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command available from SPSS Developer Central (www.spss.com/devcentral) to hide or delete all tables of designated types after they are produced in case you want to look at them first and then prepare a smaller set of output for printing.  (Requires the Python programmability plug-in and at least V17 of SPSS Statistics).

The SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES extension command can suppress particular columns or rows in specified tables.  It can also set column widths if you want to narrow some tables.

You can also reorder the output to put the tables in a sequence you want, although you cannot do side-by-side layouts.  The reordering can be done interactively, or it could be automated with a script.

HTH,

Jon Peck
SPSS, an IBM Company
[hidden email]
312-651-3435

From:	"Thew, Barbara" <[hidden email]>
To:	[hidden email]
Date:	05/14/2010 07:30 AM
Subject:	[SPSSX-L] FW: Printing issues with SPSS
Sent by:	"SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]>

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Can anyone offer a solution:

The standard output of an ANOVA is pages and pages of stuff, most of which I do not want yet I cannot specify defaults as to which analyses are conducted. Instead I have to go through deleting each separate section again ... and again ... and again. Tables are spread over several pages (width ways and length ways) and to avoid this you have to navigate within several menus .... FOR EVERY SINGLE TABLE. Of which there may be many.

Tables cannot be dragged around to maximise the amount of useful information per page (for example in SuperAnova which I used to use and which was WONDERFUL you could drag two tables to be side by side and drag across margins to shrink or extend to squeeze stuff in). I hate wasting paper but I also put some value on my time so why do I have to battle every time I want to print something out to get it down to a sensible printout size?

Thank you

Barbara

Barbara Thew
Customer Support Services
Computing Services
University of Liverpool

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[Kornbrot, Diana]

Why indeed!?
But that’s SPSS user interface people for you – the pits
I export to html and re-import to excel and then tidy up
Far from ideal, but much better than spss inerface
Unfortunately, although saving scripts is good fro analysis it is poor  on presentation and abysmal on graphs
Best

diana


On 14/05/2010 12:15, "Thew, Barbara" <B.N.Thew@...> wrote:

Can anyone offer a solution:

The standard output of an ANOVA is pages and pages of stuff, most of which I do not want yet I cannot specify defaults as to which analyses are conducted. Instead I have to go through deleting each separate section again ... and again ... and again. Tables are spread over several pages (width ways and length ways) and to avoid this you have to navigate within several menus .... FOR EVERY SINGLE TABLE. Of which there may be many.

Tables cannot be dragged around to maximise the amount of useful information per page (for example in SuperAnova which I used to use and which was WONDERFUL you could drag two tables to be side by side and drag across margins to shrink or extend to squeeze stuff in). I hate wasting paper but I also put some value on my time so why do I have to battle every time I want to print something out to get it down to a sensible printout size?

Thank you

Barbara

Barbara Thew
Customer Support Services
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University of Liverpool

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