Re: saving .spv with only visible sections retained

Posted by Art Kendall on Feb 09, 2011; 7:44pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/saving-spv-with-only-visible-sections-retained-tp3374699p3378194.html

In your example, what is the general term for the level of the outline that says "Custom Tables" or "Regression"?

The person I am working with is from Korea and Roman numerals like this: Table dccclxxxv: Statistics
would be very difficult. 50 years ago I was very good at arithmetic with roman numerals, but I had to think to decode that as table  885, ( what I received when I ran your example).

How would I have the bookmarks either refer
or
1) just to the higher level of the outline, "Custom Tables" or "Regression",
1
    table ...
    table ...
2
    table ...
--- OR --
2) have Arabic numerals for the higher level, and lower case letters for the individual tables, with the letters starting over with "a" within each of the higher levels?
1
    table a ...
    table b ...
2
    table a ...
--- OR --
3) have Arabic numbers from 1 to 885.
    table 1 ...
    table  2...

    table 885 ...

I have some reflections on
>>>I am sometimes astonished at the ratio of doing analysis to prepping the output that I hear about.
that I'll try to send tomorrow.

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants


On 2/9/2011 1:19 PM, Jon K Peck wrote:

Jon Peck
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From:        Art Kendall [hidden email]
To:        Jon K Peck/Chicago/IBM@IBMUS
Date:        02/09/2011 10:10 AM
Subject:        Re: [SPSSX-L] saving .spv with only visible sections retained

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Thanks I am getting clearer on this and it looks like these will be very useful extensions.
>>>I am sometimes astonished at the ratio of doing analysis to prepping the output that I hear about.

One extension I was thinking about is this.
When I output to paper, WORD,  or .pdf there are page numbers that can be used a "book marks" to facilitate conversation.

However sending a .SPV file allows some modification (column width, wrapping, etc.) by the person on the receiving end.

I believe it is possible to set specific page breaks one at a time.  Is there a way to globally create some "book marks" to index entries that remain after cleaning out  material that is extraneous for the receiver?
Then all  both I and the receiver would have to do is something like  <edit> <find> "bookmark 231".

>>>I'm not sure exactly what you want here, but there are a few things you can do already.
- MODIFY OUTPUT can insert page breaks before the items you select.  So you could, for example, automatically insert a page break before every table or every table with an outline title of "Descriptives" or any other selection criteria.
- MODIFY OUTPUT can sequence number items - even with roman numerals if you want.  So you could sequence number every item or perhaps just every table and then use that for searching.  Here's an example.  This example replaces all outline titles for tables with the text
Table xxx: the old title
where xxx is a sequential roman numeral. \\1 stands for the old text; \\0 stands for the sequence number.

SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT TABLES
/IF PROCESS=ALL
/REPLACE ITEMS OUTLINETITLE= "Table \\0: \\1"
SEQUENCETYPE=ROMANLOWER.

This is the result.

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