Hello Jason,
I'd suggest you to use XML_TAB. It's approach is unique in that sense
that it exports exact values (with 10-12 whatever digits after comma)
and tells Excel how many digits to display , so it truly sets the
_format_ in the cell, rather than rounds up the numbers to appear as
if they were formatted. The exact values are further available for
computations in Excel, and if later you decide you need couple of more
digits in your table - that's easy to fix right in Excel.
You can export both regression estimates and free-form tables
(matrices) with XML_TAB.
You can specify, how many digits you want to keep in your output by
specifying option format(flist) where elements of flist are of the
form: N2203 - numeric, horiz alignment center, vert alignment center,
regular font, 3 decimal digits
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jason Ferris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using a number of the *.ado files created by all the brilliant
> users out there (mat2txt, tabout, estout) to create *.xls or *.OOo
> files. However, when I use any of these *.ado files I keep having the
> same problem: the number of decimal places change depending on the
> status of the last digit(s) when I import into Excel.
>
> For example if I do the following:
> tabout rep78 foreign using trial.xls, replace f(3) cell(col) /* to have
> 3 decimal places in the output */
>
> I get the following results in excel:
> Car type
> Repair Record 1978 Domestic Foreign Total
> % % %
> 1 4.167 0 2.899
> 2 16.667 0 11.594
> 3 56.25 14.286 43.478
> 4 18.75 42.857 26.087
> 5 4.167 42.857 15.942
> Total 100 100 100
>
> As you can see when excel opens this - the default column settings of
> excel convert 56.250 to 56.25 (similarly for 18.75)
>
> Now I recently noticed that the xml_tab.ado overcomes this issue. But I
> am unable to decipher where in the code the decimal place format tells
> Excel to use a particular setting (in the case of xml_tab I believe it
> has to do with making excel custom format of type #,###0.000)
>
> I need to control the format structure from Stata and not from within
> Excel.
>
> I would appreciate any insight.
>
> Cheers,
> Jase
>
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