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I got a question how to analyze text answers from a questionnaire, and if you don’t have any text mining programs you have to do the hard code work by yourself. And how do you use SPSS [...]

Hi, today I want to share how to export (save) your SPSS data file to Excel format. I got a question from a user how to keep the text labels into Excel, and that’s just a few click you have [...]

I got this question last week, “What is the maximum length of string variables?” See the example of the string variable to the right in this data file: Many years ago I remember the [...]

I got a question from a user who wanted to know if there were a smart way to recode string variables – that was automatically created when opening an Excel data file into SPSS Statistics. [...]

You can open other data files into SPSS Statistics and the most common, I Think, is an Excel data file. Here below you see an Excel data file. I have marked a yellow Square around all columns [...]

Next Monday I will show you how easy it is to do an automatic recode of string variables to numeric variables, but you will get the alphabetic order and there were a user who asked for an own [...]

Last week I introduced you to syntax, and today I will continue with syntax. In the blog made 6 Aug, I showed the compute command that create a calculated index – the mean value for several [...]