Re: SPSS 20 Help for Mac

Posted by Art Kendall on Oct 10, 2012; 12:42pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Re-SPSS-20-Help-for-Mac-tp5715566p5715571.html

I do not use the MAC, but I presume you are using the GUI, which is a great way to write a draft of your syntax.

One workaround might be to use the GUI to write the syntax with just any three variables.  After you paste it to the syntax window, go to the syntax window, go to the place where the list of variables is and see if <utilities> <variables> works for you.

If you have your syntax in a separate file, you might not need it visible in the listing file.
<edit><options><viewer> is the place to designate which parts of the listing are shown or hidden.
On 10/9/2012 8:18 PM, Scott wrote:

Hello,

I have been attempting to find the answers to these questions for some time.

In SPSS when I want to run an analysis I cannot choose multiple variables unless they are consecutive.
Typically you can choose different variables by pressing the command key and clicking (I am using
SPSS 20 for Mac, but a similar operation is control and click on Windows), but that doesn't work. If I
press the shift bar it selects the variable between the one originally chosen and the last one I choose.

Another thing is in my outputs I get so much stuff that I don't need (syntax info, info about the file
and computer I run the analysis on); is there any way to get rid of that stuff from automatically
coming up after running an analysis?

Thank you for your time and any guidance you can lend.

S

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