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About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like there were any solutions.
Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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Eric,
Please be extremely specific about cut and paste: cut
what; from where to where; cut how (exact command sequence); paste how (exact
command sequence). A general statement is useless.
Gene Maguin From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version
19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties,
too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19?
bozena ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Maguin" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:29:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version
19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties,
too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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In v.19 variable view, I can't copy the format/type for one variable and paste it to other vars. very frustrated. Also, syntax window acts weird sometimes. It jumps, copy, delete, or paste unintentionally. I have to remember click 'save' frequently so I could go back in case the file was messed up. By the way, I just started using the v. 19 a couple of weeks ago.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Bozena Zdaniuk <[hidden email]> wrote:
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There are also problems in data view. If you copy and paste some data, lest say on the lasta row, it didn't paste there, but in the first rows. (veyu frustrating and time comsuming, because I can´t paste any data, but have to enter manualy) Andrés Mg. Andrés Burga León Coordinador de Análisis e Informática Unidad de Medición de la Calidad Educativa Ministerio de Educación del Perú Calle El Comercio s/n (espalda del Museo de la Nación) Lima 41 Perú Teléfono 615-5840
In v.19 variable view, I can't copy the format/type for one variable and paste it to other vars. very frustrated. Also, syntax window acts weird sometimes. It jumps, copy, delete, or paste unintentionally. I have to remember click 'save' frequently so I could go back in case the file was messed up. By the way, I just started using the v. 19 a couple of weeks ago. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Bozena Zdaniuk <bozena.zdaniuk@...> wrote: my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? bozena ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Maguin" <emaguin@...> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:29:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like there were any solutions. Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University estone@... -- Liang Wu, Research/Evaluation
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My apologies for the lack of specificity.
I am using Windows 7 on a Lenova thinkpad, using the 32-bit version. From what I have seen, however, the problem seems to be more general than just with my specifications, and seems to be affecting all version 19 users. At any rate, the difficulty I am having is with cutting and pasting within the data editor. I copy a few cells in spss and try to copy those values into other cells, but it refuses to copy. In my situation, it is not copying, but I have read about spss changing values as well when pasting, similar to what Andrés mentioned. I have read some testimonies about Patch 19.0.1 not working, but I will give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Eric On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Gene Maguin <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) . I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before. Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability? Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J Mark From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like there were any solutions. |
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There are so many different ways to cut and paste and so many different clipboard formats that reports have to be really specific. Where are you copying from? What are you copying? Where are you pasting? How are you copying (via the menu, a right-button context menu, a toolbar button, or a keyboard shortcut). How are you pasting? What is the selection state in the destination. For example, I am using Stats 19. When I copy plain text from my little textpad editor via a Ctrl-C and paste it via Ctrl-V into a new syntax window, it pastes the content as expected and the name at the top of the window gets an asterisk which is a symbol for unsaved changes. It’s really hard for developers to fix problems that they cannot replicate because of incomplete information. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mark W. Andrews I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) . I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before. Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability? Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J Mark From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like there were any solutions. |
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Thanks, ViAnn.
In terms of the data editor, I copy 10 rows of data in one column (highlighting the relevant cells and using copy from the the pull-down menu or ctrl-c -- i've tried it both ways). Then, I click on the cell in the relevant column below the cells I copied from. I use paste from the pull down menu (or ctrl-v) and I just get missing data in all cells. After that approach failed, I copied using the same procedure, but then highlighted the relevant cells to paste into. It did paste into those cells, but it eliminated all the data from the rows that I copied from (as if I had used cut and paste instead -- I am certain I did not do that by mistake, as I have replicated this problem). What I am trying to do is double (or quadruple, actually) an existing data set, for teaching purposes. The procedure I've always used to do this is copy and paste, which seems straightforward, but if anyone has some other solution I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, ViAnn Beadle <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I don't see this problem -- but if your
purpose is merely to have what appears to be a larger dataset for statistical
analysis purposes, have you considered using the WEIGHT command?
data list free /x. begin data 1 2 3 4 5 end data. compute weightvar=3. weight by weightvar. frequencies variables=x. From: "Stone, Eric" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Date: 09/22/2011 09:00 AM Subject: Re: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> Thanks, ViAnn. In terms of the data editor, I copy 10 rows of data in one column (highlighting the relevant cells and using copy from the the pull-down menu or ctrl-c -- i've tried it both ways). Then, I click on the cell in the relevant column below the cells I copied from. I use paste from the pull down menu (or ctrl-v) and I just get missing data in all cells. After that approach failed, I copied using the same procedure, but then highlighted the relevant cells to paste into. It did paste into those cells, but it eliminated all the data from the rows that I copied from (as if I had used cut and paste instead -- I am certain I did not do that by mistake, as I have replicated this problem). What I am trying to do is double (or quadruple, actually) an existing data set, for teaching purposes. The procedure I've always used to do this is copy and paste, which seems straightforward, but if anyone has some other solution I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, ViAnn Beadle <vab88011@...> wrote: There are so many different ways to cut and paste and so many different clipboard formats that reports have to be really specific. Where are you copying from? What are you copying? Where are you pasting? How are you copying (via the menu, a right-button context menu, a toolbar button, or a keyboard shortcut). How are you pasting? What is the selection state in the destination.
For example, I am using Stats 19. When I copy plain text from my little textpad editor via a Ctrl-C and paste it via Ctrl-V into a new syntax window, it pastes the content as expected and the name at the top of the window gets an asterisk which is a symbol for unsaved changes.
It’s really hard for developers to fix problems that they cannot replicate because of incomplete information. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]
On Behalf Of Mark W. Andrews
I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) .
I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before.
Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability?
Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J
Mark
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email]
On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk
my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that
if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes
and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all!
It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost
a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete
a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does
it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too.
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email]
On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv
about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like
there were any solutions.
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Eric, Rhonda, Mark 1: The problem is that edit, cut and paste in SPSS don’t work the same as in Word or Excel. I’ve made it work for me, but only by highlighting the same area of destination cells in a second data editor as the source cells from the first editor. I’ve never risked it in the same one, but that’s due to 45 years of not quite trusting computers. Have you tried it using two data editors, not just the same one? Apart from that SPSS 19 is fantastic. 2: (for Eric) If you want duplicate data sets, why don’t you just save the active file with a new name for each copy? John F Hall From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Thanks, ViAnn. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, ViAnn Beadle <[hidden email]> wrote: There are so many different ways to cut and paste and so many different clipboard formats that reports have to be really specific. Where are you copying from? What are you copying? Where are you pasting? How are you copying (via the menu, a right-button context menu, a toolbar button, or a keyboard shortcut). How are you pasting? What is the selection state in the destination. For example, I am using Stats 19. When I copy plain text from my little textpad editor via a Ctrl-C and paste it via Ctrl-V into a new syntax window, it pastes the content as expected and the name at the top of the window gets an asterisk which is a symbol for unsaved changes. It’s really hard for developers to fix problems that they cannot replicate because of incomplete information. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Mark W. Andrews I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) . I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before. Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability? Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J Mark From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like there were any solutions. |
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If you just want to duplicate a dataset
several times, it is much more efficient and less error prone to do it
with ADD FILES.
For example, ADD FILES /FILE=* /FILE=* /FILE=*. gives you a tripled dataset. HTH, Jon Peck (no "h") Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] new phone: 720-342-5621 From: "Stone, Eric" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Date: 09/22/2011 08:06 AM Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] problems with cut and paste in version 19 Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> Thanks, ViAnn. In terms of the data editor, I copy 10 rows of data in one column (highlighting the relevant cells and using copy from the the pull-down menu or ctrl-c -- i've tried it both ways). Then, I click on the cell in the relevant column below the cells I copied from. I use paste from the pull down menu (or ctrl-v) and I just get missing data in all cells. After that approach failed, I copied using the same procedure, but then highlighted the relevant cells to paste into. It did paste into those cells, but it eliminated all the data from the rows that I copied from (as if I had used cut and paste instead -- I am certain I did not do that by mistake, as I have replicated this problem). What I am trying to do is double (or quadruple, actually) an existing data set, for teaching purposes. The procedure I've always used to do this is copy and paste, which seems straightforward, but if anyone has some other solution I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:34 AM, ViAnn Beadle <vab88011@...> wrote: There are so many different ways to cut and paste and so many different clipboard formats that reports have to be really specific. Where are you copying from? What are you copying? Where are you pasting? How are you copying (via the menu, a right-button context menu, a toolbar button, or a keyboard shortcut). How are you pasting? What is the selection state in the destination.
For example, I am using Stats 19. When I copy plain text from my little textpad editor via a Ctrl-C and paste it via Ctrl-V into a new syntax window, it pastes the content as expected and the name at the top of the window gets an asterisk which is a symbol for unsaved changes.
It’s really hard for developers to fix problems that they cannot replicate because of incomplete information. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]
On Behalf Of Mark W. Andrews
I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) .
I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before.
Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability?
Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J
Mark
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email]
On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk
my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that
if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes
and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all!
It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost
a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete
a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does
it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too.
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [hidden email]
On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv
about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like
there were any solutions.
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The 'unnecessary drag and drop functionality' that Mark mentioned needs to go. You have no idea when it happens and how it happens. You just see your syntax being moved and messed up and it is totally not your intention. Thanks Mark for venting my frustration as well.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Mark W. Andrews <[hidden email]> wrote:
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As far as I can see, the drag and drop
behavior in the Syntax Editor is the same as in Microsoft Word. If
you make a selection, and then click on it, hold down the button, and move
the mouse, it moves your selection to the place where the button is released.
Regards, Jon Peck (no "h") Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] new phone: 720-342-5621 From: Liang WU <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Date: 09/22/2011 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] problems with cut and paste in version 19 Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> The 'unnecessary drag and drop functionality' that Mark mentioned needs to go. You have no idea when it happens and how it happens. You just see your syntax being moved and messed up and it is totally not your intention. Thanks Mark for venting my frustration as well. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Mark W. Andrews <Mark.Andrews@...> wrote: I think that the Synatx editor is a complete mess (v19, windows 7, 32 bit). I had to shut down most of its functionality just to make it somewhat workable and reliable—I almost gave up and went back to v15. I continue to have trouble cutting and pasting, scrambling code from annoying and unnecessary drag and drop functionality, code that exists but is not visible on the screen, and unreliable undo (cntrl z) .
I appreciate the error window on the bottom, but it nearly always is referencing the wrong line number and does not give you enough information to resolve the problem. I am back to combing the output as I did before.
Can’t we just get a decent text editor? How about with wild card find and replace capability?
Ahhh…done venting…feel much better J
Mark
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]
On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk
my main issue with cut and paste in syntax files is that
if I just do cut and paste in the file without doing any other changes
and click "save" the cut and paste work does not save at all!
It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost
a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete
a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does
it persist in v. 19? Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version 19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties, too.
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]
On Behalf Of Stone, Eric About 6 months ago, there was some discussion on the listserv
about problems with cut and paste in version 19, but it doesn't look like
there were any solutions.
Liang Wu, Research/Evaluation
Analyst, Sr.
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Sorry, folks, my previous description was wrong. Here is a correct one:
my main issue with 'find and replace' in syntax files is that if I just do "find and replace" in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the "find and replace" work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that. This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? bozena ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Maguin" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:29:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version
19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties,
too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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Syntax find and replace works correctly for me in 19 (32 bit,
OS=xp). There's other things but that works correctly. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bozena Zdaniuk Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:28 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: find and replace problem in syntax editor Sorry,
folks, my previous description was wrong. Here is a correct one:
my
main issue with 'find and replace' in syntax files is that if I just do "find
and replace" in the file without doing any other changes and click "save" the
"find and replace" work does not save at all! It's as if spss does not register
that any changes were made. I lost a lot of work before i trained myself
to always remember to enter and delete a random letter or something like that.
This issue is in version 18. Does it persist in v. 19? bozena ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Maguin" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:29:12 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Oh!! I wasn't spcific enough either! What specific OS? Version
19, i understand but 32 or 64 bit? And there might be a few more subtleties,
too. From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Stone, Eric Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 5:19 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: problems with cut and paste in version 19 Now that version 19 has been out longer, I was hoping there was some solution that spss has come up with that someone on the list knows about. It's hard to imagine that the program doesn't support such a simple and common function. Thanks, Eric Eric Stone Department of Psychology Wake Forest University [hidden email] |
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Thanks John and everyone else for their suggestions. I tried copying into a different data editor, and it copied but changed the first cell to 0. This is sufficiently odd behavior that it seems that I just have a malfunctioning version of spss, except that in google'ing this issue I ran across a number of other people who said they had the same problem. (John -- I'm doubling the size of a data set not creating duplicate copies. Jon Peck's solution works for that case, but there are other situations where I would like to cut and paste where it's more complicated.)
At any rate, I appreciate everyone's suggestions, but have come to the conclusion that right now pasting is just not functional within spss for my operating system constraints (and that of others, although apparently not everyone), for reasons I don't understand. I will try whatever patches come out and hope for the best. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM, John F Hall <[hidden email]> wrote:
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This might not be useful for you but you can copy and paste your data into an excel file and then multiply the cases in there, then you can copy and paste this larger data set into your original file. Hope this helps.
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