Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:07:01 -0600
Reply-To:     "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
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From:         "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
Subject:      Re: exporting output from syntax command
Comments: To: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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You have control over the line drawing in the draft Viewer through Preferences.  You can set it to use the special line-drawing characters or to use regular characters, and you can specify what those characters should be.

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ristow [mailto:wrristow@mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:29 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] exporting output from syntax command


At 07:14 PM 10/28/2002 -0500, Raynald Levesque wrote:

>In order to save the output as a text file, readable by Wordpad:
>- Generate your output using the Draft Output window instead of the
>Output window.
>- save the Output file as a rtf type.

I do this quite a lot myself, and the RTF opens and prints nicely in
Microsoft Word (97). It doesn't export to text as well, though. The
box-boundary characters (for, say, FREQUENCIES or CROSSTABS output) use
a special SPSS-specific font, and are translated to question marks in a
text output file.

Does anyone have a Word macro, or other tool, to change the SPSS
box-boundary characters to standard ASCII? It needn't be fancy; "-" for
horizontal line, "|" for vertical, and "+" for corners is plenty good enough.

-Thanks,
  Richard