Re: st: Exporting Stata output to Excel: new version of -xml_tab- isavailable from SSC

[Roger Harbord <roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

Doesn't work for me either in Excel 2000. Checking MS website, it appears xml 
support was introduced in Excel 2002 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288215/>

Zurab, i think you should add this to the "Requires" bit of the Description 
on SSC and perhaps also the help file.

Roger.

--On 13 October 2006 09:22 +0100 Dominic Muston <dom.muston@googlemail.com> 
wrote:


> Fantastic Zurab!
>
> You say the routine is "structured to work with MS Excel". Could you
> explain a bit more about this? When I tried to open an XML file
> created by xml_tab, my Excel just thought it was another text file.
>
> This is what I did in Stata (using code from your help file):
> sysuse auto.dta
> regress price mpg headroom trunk if foreign==0
> estimates store reg1
> regress price mpg headroom trunk if foreign==1
> estimates store reg2
> xml_tab reg1 reg2, stats(r2_a) title("price regressions by car type")
>
> I'm running MS Excel 2000 (9.0.8948 SP-3) on a Windows PC machine.
>
> How do I open the XML file in my Excel retaining the formatting you've
> been so careful to set-up? Apologies if this is something really
> obvious.
>
> Dom
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