Date:         Fri, 31 May 1996 20:54:23 GMT
Reply-To:     Eric White <ewhite@SSC.WISC.EDU>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Eric White <ewhite@SSC.WISC.EDU>
Organization: UW - Madison
Subject:      Re: Data Entry II and SPSS v.6

In article <51@kingswood.win-uk.net>, jmay@KINGSWOOD.WIN-UK.NET says...
 
[stuff cut by ewhite]
 
>Windows v.6. For some reason the data editor insists on listing the
>variables in what appears to be alphabetical order, regardless of the
>order I went to some lengths to create when I was setting up Data
>Entry. This made a complete nonsense of a frequency table I tried to
>create the other day, because the days of the week do NOT go:
 
 Friday
 Monday
 Saturday
 Thursday
 Tuesday
 Wednesday
 
 
>I worked around the problem by using the data editor to create some new
>variables, at the end of the file, consisting of the days of the week
>in their correct order.
 
>But surely there must be a better way to preserve the order of the
>variables?  I remember that SPSS/PC+ had commands for altering the order
>of the variables in the file. Is there something similar in the Windows
>version? I have checked the manual, but can't find "reorder vars"  or
>"change variable order" or anything like this.
 
>All suggestions gratefully received.
 
You can fix this by choosing 'preferences' under the 'edit' menu, and
selecting 'file' rather than 'alphabetical' for variable display order.
 
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Eric