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| From | Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Column Width Question |
| Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2014 07:55:21 -0800 |
Thank you! Erika On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Erika Kociolek <ekociole@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a Stata dataset and the column width of the one of the string variables is extremely large. The length of the data within the column varies between 3 and 47 characters. There are other columns in the data with data of a similar length but the column widths are much smaller. >> >> The wide column makes it difficult to browse data - it takes up a large portion of the entire screen. Is there anything I can do to size down the column (or make it "fit" the data)? > > > Yes, assign a narrower format to the variable(s), e.g., > > format %24s myvar > > > -- Phil > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/