Date:         Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:35:40 GMT
Reply-To:     Mary Tully D7 IP No 80 <mtully@FS1.PA.MAN.AC.UK>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mary Tully D7 IP No 80 <mtully@FS1.PA.MAN.AC.UK>
Organization: University of Manchester, Pharmacy
Subject:      Re: value labels

>This is probably a simple question, if you have the syntax manual for
>SPSS 6.1, but I don't!
>
>I have a database given to me by someone else.  It has 20
>categorical variables, with 14 categories for each, all the same.
>None are labelled.  I want to label all 20 variables the same:
>etc etc
 
Many thanks to all those who helped me with this problem - I
discovered that my previous attempts to do what everyone recommended
were hampered by a stray hard return in the syntax (between the list
of variable names and the value labels), which caused error messages
which I misinterpreted as not being able to the command at all!
 
Also many thanks to those who pointed out that 'problem20' was too
long a variable name - when I rechecked this morning it was
'proble20'.  I was just in a hurry to get home last night!
 
Mary Tully
Research Fellow
Department of Pharmacy
University of Manchester
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MANCHESTER M13 9PL
UK
 
Telephone 0161 275 2415/2342
Fax 0161 275 2396
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I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.' TA Edison