st: copying and pasting data from stata to excel

["Yun Liu" <liuyun3@gmail.com>]

Dear Stata users,

When I copy data from stata browser and then paste them in an excel
spreadsheet, the missing data are not treated correctly. For example,
in stata I have:
var1       var2          var3
1           .               3

After I paste them to excel, they become:
var1       var2          var3
1           3

How to deal with it? Thank you!

Yun
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