change the format of the variable view

[P.van Groenestijn]

Dear list,

How can I change the default format of the variable view? So I can make for
example the label field widther and the measure field smaller
I suppose there should be a script for it!

Please help!

Pieter van Groenestijn
University of Nijmegen

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[Beadle, ViAnn]

You can change the width of the column in the grid by grabbing the right border of the label cell in the first row. This change is NOT persisted from session to session.

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Subject: change the format of the variable view

Dear list,

How can I change the default format of the variable view? So I can make for
example the label field widther and the measure field smaller
I suppose there should be a script for it!

Please help!

Pieter van Groenestijn
University of Nijmegen

---
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Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
Research Technische OndersteuningsGroep
Postbus 9104
6500 HE  NIJMEGEN
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
email: [hidden email]
hp: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/fac/rtog

[Mark A Davenport MADAVENP]

John, Kyle, and other lurking SPSS  eyes,

Pieter brings up a good idea for a future modification to the Options:Data
tab.  One can change the default size of NEWLY created variables but SPSS
does not appear to automatically sense that the 15 digit value  you just
imported is a valid number that you want to see in its entirety, not in
scientific notation nor as converted to a string (character variable).  It
would be nice to have the option to set SPSS to use, say, a 10 or 12
character column as the default .

Just a thought.

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Dear list,

How can I change the default format of the variable view? So I can make
for
example the label field widther and the measure field smaller
I suppose there should be a script for it!

Please help!

Pieter van Groenestijn
University of Nijmegen

---
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
Research Technische OndersteuningsGroep
Postbus 9104
6500 HE  NIJMEGEN
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
email: [hidden email]
hp: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/fac/rtog

[Mark A Davenport MADAVENP]

All,

A few years ago I experimented on a multi-level SEM model that required
the calculation of betweeen groups and polled-within groups cov matrix.  I
could get a between groups matrix using SPSS but was never able to get
SPSS to product a matrix for pooled within (That is, I could not find a
procedure that gave output in the form of a corr matrix based on the
proper denominator) .  Does anyone know if SPSS can produce such a matrix.
 Alternatively, does anyone have code that can produce such a matrix?

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Mark A. Davenport Ph.D.
Senior Research Analyst
Office of Institutional Research
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
336.256.0395
[hidden email]

'An approximate answer to the right question is worth a good deal more
than an exact answer to an approximate question.' --a paraphrase of J. W.
Tukey (1962)

[P.van Groenestijn]

Dear Viann,

The point is that I want to chnage the default format of the varibale view.

Pieter van Groenestijn

At 17:39 31-1-2007, Beadle, ViAnn wrote:

>You can change the width of the column in the grid by grabbing the right
>border of the label cell in the first row. This change is NOT persisted
>from session to session.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
>Pieter van Groenestijn
>Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:02 AM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: change the format of the variable view
>
>Dear list,
>
>How can I change the default format of the variable view? So I can make for
>example the label field widther and the measure field smaller
>I suppose there should be a script for it!
>
>Please help!
>
>Pieter van Groenestijn
>University of Nijmegen
>
>---
>Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
>Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
>Research Technische OndersteuningsGroep
>Postbus 9104
>6500 HE  NIJMEGEN
>tel: [phone]
>fax: [phone]
>email: [hidden email]
>hp: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/fac/rtog

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

You can just change the variable width to see the
entire number? As in:
VARIABLE WIDTH myvar (40).


--- Mark A Davenport MADAVENP <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> John, Kyle, and other lurking SPSS  eyes,
>
> Pieter brings up a good idea for a future
> modification to the Options:Data
> tab.  One can change the default size of NEWLY
> created variables but SPSS
> does not appear to automatically sense that the 15
> digit value  you just
> imported is a valid number that you want to see in
> its entirety, not in
> scientific notation nor as converted to a string
> (character variable).  It
> would be nice to have the option to set SPSS to use,
> say, a 10 or 12
> character column as the default .
>
> Just a thought.
>
>

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> Mark A. Davenport Ph.D.
> Senior Research Analyst
> Office of Institutional Research
> The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
> 336.256.0395
> [hidden email]
>
> 'An approximate answer to the right question is
> worth a good deal more
> than an exact answer to an approximate question.'
> --a paraphrase of J. W.
> Tukey (1962)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Pieter van Groenestijn <[hidden email]>
> Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion"
> <[hidden email]>
> 01/31/2007 09:01 AM
> Please respond to
> Pieter van Groenestijn <[hidden email]>
>
>
> To
> [hidden email]
> cc
>
> Subject
> change the format of the variable view
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> How can I change the default format of the variable
> view? So I can make
> for
> example the label field widther and the measure
> field smaller
> I suppose there should be a script for it!
>
> Please help!
>
> Pieter van Groenestijn
> University of Nijmegen
>
> ---
> Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
> Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
> Research Technische OndersteuningsGroep
> Postbus 9104
> 6500 HE  NIJMEGEN
> tel: [phone]
> fax: [phone]
> email: [hidden email]
> hp: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/fac/rtog
>

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[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi Pieter,

maybe you could make an autoscript from the following:

BEGIN PROGRAM.
import spss
from spss import Submit
Submit("variable width all (10).")
END PROGRAM.


I'm not an expert in this, but it might work.

Cheers!
Albert-Jan

--- Pieter van Groenestijn
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Viann,
>
> The point is that I want to chnage the default
> format of the varibale view.
>
> Pieter van Groenestijn
>
> At 17:39 31-1-2007, Beadle, ViAnn wrote:
> >You can change the width of the column in the grid
> by grabbing the right
> >border of the label cell in the first row. This
> change is NOT persisted
> >from session to session.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: SPSSX(r) Discussion
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> >Pieter van Groenestijn
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:02 AM
> >To: [hidden email]
> >Subject: change the format of the variable view
> >
> >Dear list,
> >
> >How can I change the default format of the variable
> view? So I can make for
> >example the label field widther and the measure
> field smaller
> >I suppose there should be a script for it!
> >
> >Please help!
> >
> >Pieter van Groenestijn
> >University of Nijmegen
> >
> >---
> >Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
> >Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
> >Research Technische OndersteuningsGroep
> >Postbus 9104
> >6500 HE  NIJMEGEN
> >tel: [phone]
> >fax: [phone]
> >email: [hidden email]
> >hp: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/fac/rtog
>

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