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Thanks very much for the commendation. -tabplot- is from SSC. You don't cite the exact command you gave but at a guess what is biting you is a limit on what you can do with -twoway-. But my guess is that you are trying to use its -separate()- option to get separate colours for each of your categories. That can only lead to an extraordinary mess! The default with -tabplot- is that categories are distinguished by axis labels and 20 categories on one or both variables are no problem. -separate()- is intended only for special cases, such as highlighting a subset. I really need to see your exact syntax to advise well here. Nick On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Beede, David N <dbeede@doc.gov> wrote: > I am trying to use -tabplot- with 20 industry categories (which also happens to be the maximum permitted number of categories for the command according to the help file), but I get an error message that I have too many options (the default maximum number of options is 70 in Stata). On the Stata FAQs, I see that one can get around the 70 option limit by using the * option in the -syntax- command (as in syntax[, opt1 opt2...*]), and when I took a peek at the -tabplot- ado file there indeed was a * at the end of syntax[]. So I am a bit puzzled why I get the error message. Any thoughts? > > And I want to convey a heartfelt thank-you to Nick Cox for -tabplot- and everything else he has generously shared with us Statans. :) * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/