Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
The Paste command operates as you would expect with information
copied from other programs pasted into Stata. Data can be pasted into
the Data Editor window that includes the column titles, if present,
and Stata, which will enter the data into the cells. Stata asks if column
titles are present and places that information in the gray column titles
row at the top if needed.
In addition to the Paste command is the Paste Special…, which is
available for pasting into the Data Editor. This menu item gives you more
control over pasted material including what is used as delimiters between
data and how sequential delimiters and double quotes are handled.
The Clear item under the Edit menu is used to clear selected com-
mands from the Review window on a Macintosh. Select a line or several
lines in the Review region of the Main window and then select clear.
The Table Copy Options… is used to remove vertical lines from
a table. Say you have created a table in Stata and want to copy it to
another program. In Stata, there may be vertical lines present that
might be difficult to remove once moved to the new program. With
the Remove All or Smart Remove selected, these vertical lines auto-
matically will be deleted upon pasting into the other program. This is
not available on Unix computers.
On a Macintosh, Select All selects all the text in the Results or
Do-File Editor window, which can then be copied. The Select Line
and Delete Line do just that in the Do-File Editor. These items will
appear dim if they are not useable in the current window.
The Find item, under the Edit menu, has several submenus on a
Macintosh, which are used within the Do-File Editor; otherwise they
appear dimmed. These items are available on Windows PCs from
within the Do-File Editor. When Find is selected with a Viewer win-
dow as the frontmost window, a Find toolbar appears at the bottom of
the Viewer window. This also is available within the Viewer window
on Windows PCs. With this toolbar active, a keyword search can be
initiated to find the word searching forward or backward in the cur-
rent document. This should not be confused with the Command and
Search fields at the top of the Viewer window that can search from
Stata help files on your computer or over the Internet.
In the Do-File Editor, selecting the Find icon brings up a dialog box
with several options. You can find, find and replace, and have the option
of replacing items one at a time or all at once. There are checkboxes for
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