Just an example to show the nature of the problem.
Run this code on an empty dataset
********* CODE *********
input x
1000
1.123456
987654321
3002001000
end
browse
* Copy to excel. Numbers are wrong.
format %12.0g _all
browse
* Copy to excel. Numbers are ok now
********* END *********
As previous posts have said, formatting the data fixes the problem.
Sergio
On 11/10/05, Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amadou
> In addition to the comments others have made, here is what I do when I work=
> with excel
>
> 1. Typically I have results saved as a textfile (usually a matrix). I then =
> use excel's import wizard. The key here is that I make sure that all column=
> s are imported as text. That way I am sure excel does not try to round off-=
> up- or-away stuff for me.
>
> 2. For the occasional cut and paste job, I copy (use table option) and afte=
> r the initial pasting, a small box appears at the bottom of the pasted stuf=
> f. This little guy offers some paste options and once again I use the text =
> import wizard, you then get the option of specifying the text option for st=
> uff you dont want excel to mess with.
>
> Ronnie
>
> Ronnie Babigumira
> Dept. of Economics and Resource Management
> Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)
> PO Box 5003,
> N-1432 =C5s,
> Norway
>
> >>> [email protected] 11/09/05 10:31 pm >>>
> Hi,
> I am sure this has been already discussed, but how to
> get exact values when coping data from Stata's editor
> to Excel?
> Excel keeps rouding results and I want to avoid that (for
> example 989958 in stata is rounded to 990000 in excel).
> When applying mata's function varsum in Stata, I get different
> result on the total with what is given by Excel.
> Best regards.
> Amadou.
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