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RE: st: Presenting data in a desired form
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Presenting data in a desired form
Date
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:59:30 -0700 (PDT)
You are welcome. I don't know the specifics offhand, but if you want to
use mail merge, you need to start with an Excel-type spreadsheet
(tab-separated text or comma-separated text) with one line per student.
Since you have multiple lines per student right now, you probably want to
use Stata's -reshape wide- to consolidate the records. Then use -outsheet-
to create the Excel-type spreadsheet. Stata's -help reshape- and -help
outsheet- should assist you here. The website to which I previously
referred has instructions on creating the interface with your email
program.
As you might infer from the website's references to Word 2000 and 2002, it
was quite a while ago that I last did this, and the software may have
changed in the interim, so I am afraid can't help much more with the
details.
Best of luck.
David
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of keeler james
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: Presenting data in a desired form
>
> Many thanks for the tips, David.
>
> I have tried Martin's method and it works well in separating the
> candidates in individual files. I shall now work on arranging the data
> into the desired format. Any tips on this?
>
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> Calchas
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