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How can I highlight entries in the outline pane of the output viewer?

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Art Kendall

How can I highlight entries in the outline pane of the output viewer?

Is there a way to edit the format of text in the outline pane on the left of the output viewer?
I.e., larger or bolder or color or background, etc..

If it is possible to do this, will such changes be carried through to a pdf file when EXPORTed?

Art Kendall
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Art Kendall
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Jon K Peck

Re: How can I highlight entries in the outline pane of the output viewer?

You can change the outline font and size globally using the View>Outline Size or View>Outline Font menus.

You can go further, though, with individual items. You can edit the text and insert html or rtf text formatting on individual items.
For example, this text would make Warnings italic
<html><i>Warnings</i></html>

This would be tedious to do manually if there is very much of it, but the SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command from the SPSS Community can automate this. For example, this syntax would make the Descriptive Statistics titles in the outline bold. In the replacement text below, \\1 stands for the item text being modified.

SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT TABLES
/IF outlinetitle="Descriptive Statistics"
PROCESS=ALL
/REPLACE ITEMS
OUTLINETITLE= "<html><b>\\1</b></html>".

HTH,

Jon Peck
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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From: Art Kendall <[hidden email]>
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Date: 02/03/2011 06:18 AM
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Is there a way to edit the format of text in the outline pane on the left of the output viewer?
I.e., larger or bolder or color or background, etc..

If it is possible to do this, will such changes be carried through to a pdf file when EXPORTed?

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants
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Rick Oliver-3

Re: How can I highlight entries in the outline pane of the output viewer?

Note that these font settings are not preserved in the PDF. Outline entries are converted to bookmarks in the PDF and are displayed however the PDF reader chooses to display them.

From: Jon K Peck/Chicago/IBM@IBMUS
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Date: 02/03/2011 08:22 AM
Subject: Re: How can I highlight entries in the outline pane of the output viewer?
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Is there a way to edit the format of text in the outline pane on the left of the output viewer?
I.e., larger or bolder or color or background, etc..

If it is possible to do this, will such changes be carried through to a pdf file when EXPORTed?

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants
===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD