Designing
& Running Analyses
(Continued)
Some options are global and apply to all
analyses. They allow you to set the pitch (font size)
for the report, the page margins, paper orientation, the
next page number to be printed, and the zoom factor.
The OR and ZF options are very important.
They are global options and work with any analysis. The
paper orientation may be set to OR=P (portrait) or OR=L
(landscape). The zoom factor option is any easy way to
reduce the size of a table so it will fit on one page.
Normally, ZF=100 and the printouts will be displayed at
100% their normal size. Setting ZF=90 would display the
tables at 90% of their normal size, so more columns would
be able to fit on a page. If an analysis won't fit on one
page, or if it appears too squished together, you can
often improve its appearance by using the zoom factor
option.
After you have designed a series of
procedures, you can save them in a file. Thus, you could
load the file at a future time in order to add additional
procedures or to modify it. Procedure files have a .pro
extension.
In most cases, the codebook, data file,
and procedure file use the same file name. When you save the procedure file, it's a good idea to give it the same name as the codebook.
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