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as a command line program. On Macintosh computers, the menus
are always available at the top of the screen, whereas on Windows
PCs, menu items are integrated into the currently active window. This
means that these menus will appear differently depending on which
window is active.
On a Macintosh, under the Stata menu, selecting About Stata…
brings up a dialog box with information about Stata Corporation and
how to contact them, the version of Stata you are running, and the
serial number. This information will be under the Help menu on Unix
and Windows operating systems. The serial number is particularly
important if you need technical help from Stata. They require your
serial number in order to confirm you are a registered user.
The Preferences menu is located under the Stata menu on a
Macintosh, and under the Edit menu on a Unix or Windows PC. There
are several selections you can make. The first is General Preferences,
which brings up a window with several items you can select or change
to determine how Stata will react (Figure 1.7); for example, how data
are saved, how searches are handled, which directory to use, etc.
The Graph Preferences brings up a dialog of items that affect the
color, font, printing, and clipboard when dealing with graphs. On a
Macintosh, there is only one preferences dialog, which opens to the
General Preferences or Graph Preferences based on the menu selec-
tion, but once the dialog is open you can switch back and forth from
the General to Graph Preferences by checking the icons at the top of
the window.
There are other icons at the top of the Preference window on a
Macintosh for changing other aspects of Stata. The Windows
Preference dialog uses tabs. The Do-File Editor icon is used to make
changes to how Do-File windows and programs behave. The Syntax
Highlighting icon is to set colors for various programming elements
in the Do-File Editor. The Windows icon allows you to set param-
eters for the various windows available in Stata. Finally there is an
Internet icon that can be used to set up a proxy server with user name
and password as well as determine how often you wish Stata to be
updated. As mentioned previously, Stata is tightly integrated with
Internet connectivity. Stata Corporation offers frequent updates to its
software that can be downloaded and installed automatically. This is a
great feature and I encourage you to take advantage of it.
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