General Statistical Packages Comparisons - Agricultural Statistical Data Analysis Using Stata - page 6

text) will be accompanied by a link in blue text. Blue texts are links
and can be clicked just like in an Internet browser. If the link (blue
text) is a Web page, it will open your browser and take you to that loca-
tion. In general, however, these blue links will open a Viewer window
with further explanations concerning the error. Finally, black/bold is
used to echo what has been typed in the Command area of the Main
window, which appears as the lower portion of the Main window, or
what has been entered into a command dialog window.
At the top of the Main window are several icons for different pur-
poses. To find out what these icons are for, roll your mouse pointer over
one of the icons for a few seconds and a yellow “about” box appears. The
first icon is for opening data files. If you press the icon and hold it down, a
drop-down menu of recently saved files appears. The next icon is for sav-
ing the dataset in memory. If the dataset has not been saved previously,
a standard save dialog box appears for you to save the file. The printer
icon has a drop-down menu with all the current open windows listed.
Selecting a window brings up a small dialog box with several parameters
that can be set prior to printing, including a header, user, and project
fields (Macintosh only). Other parameters include Stata fonts and colors,
which are available from a drop-down menu (Macintosh only). You can
select to print either the Results window or any open Viewer windows.
These are selected by holding down the Printer icon until a drop-down
window appears with window selections (Figure 1.2).
Figure 1.2 Printer dialog box with drop-down menu showing Stata selections on a Macintosh
computer.