[...]
* Ability to quickly copy over selected output straight to Microsoft
Word which looks as good as it does in the output window. I know you can
achieve this by running STATA's "translate" command but a quicker way would
be preferred. A two way output screen similar in appearence to SPSS's that
allows users to effortlessly copy over selected output to Word would be
ideal (but I think that's asking a bit much).
[...]
Unfortunately in my commercial environment I'm
often called upon to produce lots of mind numbing contingency tables and it
is solely in this regard that SPSS has the advantage.
[...]
If I had a need to mass-produce such tables, I would look into the
possibility of having an automated process that would create the distilled
datasets in Stata, translate them to SPSS (using Stat/Transfer or a similar
product), and launch SPSS to use that dataset and do whatever it needs to
do to it.
