Learning from example syntax a short cut to the fine manual

[Art Kendall]

In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
"Read The Fine Manual".

One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,  
loading a file, or exiting the menus via <paste>
2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
3--  hit the f1 key.


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Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

[David Marso]

It has been like this for a very very long time!
My new ver 21 however insists on opening up a page online!
Q to the cognoscenti:   Any way to have it open locally or is that just too optimistic!

Art Kendall wrote

In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
"Read The Fine Manual".

One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,  
loading a file, or exiting the menus via <paste>
2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
3--  hit the f1 key.


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Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

[Andy H]

This is a nice little tip. Thank you for sharing.

[Art Kendall]

On mine it is local.
 look at the url In your browser
e.g., when I key <f1> with my cursor on "alter type" It says
http://art-pc:55016/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.spss.statistics.help/syn_alter_type.htm
On 3/10/2013 5:16 PM, David Marso wrote:

It has been like this for a very very long time!
My new ver 21 however insists on opening up a page online!
Q to the cognoscenti:   Any way to have it open locally or is that just too
optimistic!


Art Kendall wrote

In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
"Read The Fine Manual".

One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,
loading a file, or exiting the menus via
<paste>
2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
3--  hit the f1 key.


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Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

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[Bruce Weaver]

David is probably running into the problem that was discussed here:

http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Version-19-syntax-help-only-online-td4985244.html

Note Rick Oliver's post about it being slow to load the first time during a session.

Art Kendall wrote

On mine
        it is local.
         look at the url In
        your browser
      e.g., when I key <f1> with my cursor on "alter type" It says
      http://art-pc:55016/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.spss.statistics.help/syn_alter_type.htm 
      Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants
      On 3/10/2013 5:16 PM, David Marso wrote:
   
   
      It has been like this for a very very long time!
My new ver 21 however insists on opening up a page online!
Q to the cognoscenti:   Any way to have it open locally or is that just too
optimistic!


Art Kendall wrote

     
        In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
"Read The Fine Manual".

One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,
loading a file, or exiting the menus via
<paste>
2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
3--  hit the f1 key.


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Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

     
     




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[Jon K Peck]

It is not opening up a page online.


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It has been like this for a very very long time!
My new ver 21 however insists on opening up a page online!
Q to the cognoscenti:   Any way to have it open locally or is that just too
optimistic!


Art Kendall wrote
> In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
> "Read The Fine Manual".
>
> One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
> 1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,
> loading a file, or exiting the menus via
> <paste>
> 2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
> 3--  hit the f1 key.
>
>
> --
> Art Kendall
> Social Research Consultants





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[David Marso]

Ak OK.  I see that now.  It seemed to take forever to load and I failed to look at the URL so I imagined it was bouncing to some slow site ;-(.

Jon K Peck wrote

It is not opening up a page online.


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From:   David Marso <[hidden email]>
To:     [hidden email],
Date:   03/10/2013 03:17 PM
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the              fine manual
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It has been like this for a very very long time!
My new ver 21 however insists on opening up a page online!
Q to the cognoscenti:   Any way to have it open locally or is that just
too
optimistic!


Art Kendall wrote
> In order to understand what a set of syntax is doing it often helps to
> "Read The Fine Manual".
>
> One shortcut to the fine manual material is to
> 1 -- paste the syntax into a syntax window by pasting it from a post,
> loading a file, or exiting the menus via
> <paste>
> 2 -- put your cursor on the command you want to understand and
> 3--  hit the f1 key.
>
>
> --
> Art Kendall
> Social Research Consultants





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