The Stata User Interface

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2The Stata user interfaceThe windowsThis chapter introduces the core of Stata’s interface: its main windows, its toolbar, its menus, andits dialogs.The five main windows are the History, Results, Command, Variables, and Properties windows.Except for the Results window, each window has its name in its title bar. These five windows aretypically in use the whole time Stata is open. There are other, more specialized windows such as theViewer, Data Editor, Variables Manager, Do-file Editor, Graph, and Graph Editor windows—theseare discussed later in this manual.To open any window or to reveal a window hidden by other windows, select the window fromthe Window menu, or select the proper item from the toolbar. You can also use Ctrl Tab to cyclethrough all open windows inside the main Stata window or Alt Tab to cycle through all open windows(Stata and other) if you want to change windows from the keyboard. Many of Stata’s windows havefunctionality that can be accessed by clicking on the right mouse button (right-clicking) within thewindow. Right-clicking displays a contextual menu that, depending on the window, allows you tocopy text, set the preferences for the window, or print the contents of the window. When you copytext or print, we recommend that you always right-click on the window rather than use the menu baror toolbar so that you can be sure of where and what you are copying or printing.1

2[ GSW ] 2 The Stata user interfaceThe toolbarThis is the toolbar:The toolbar contains buttons that provide quick access to Stata’s more commonly used features.If you forget what a button does, hold the mouse pointer over the button for a moment, and a tooltipwill appear with a description of that button.Buttons that include both an icon and an arrow display a menu if you click on the arrow. Here isan overview of the toolbar buttons and their functions:Open opens a Stata dataset. Click on the button to open a dataset with the Opendialog.Save saves the Stata dataset currently in memory to disk.Print displays a list of windows. Select a window name to print its contents.Log begins a new log or closes, suspends, or resumes the current log. See[GSW] 16 Saving and printing results by using logs for an explanation of logfiles.Viewer opens the Viewer or brings a Viewer to the front of all other windows. Clickon the button to open a new Viewer. Click on the arrow to select a Viewer to bringto the front. See [GSW] 3 Using the Viewer for more information.Graph brings a Graph window to the front of all other windows. Click on the buttonto bring the Graph window to the front. Click on the arrow to select a Graph windowto bring to the front. See The Graph button in [GSW] 14 Graphing data for moreinformation.Do-file Editor opens the Do-file Editor or brings a Do-file Editor to the front ofall other windows. Click on the button to open a new Do-file Editor. Click on thearrow to select a Do-file Editor to bring to the front. See [GSW] 13 Using the Do-fileEditor—automating Stata for more information.Data Editor (Edit) opens the Data Editor or brings the Data Editor to the front ofthe other Stata windows. See [GSW] 6 Using the Data Editor for more information.Data Editor (Browse) opens the Data Editor in browse mode. See Browse mode in[GSW] 6 Using the Data Editor for more information.Variables Manager opens the Variables Manager. See [GSW] 7 Using the VariablesManager for more information.Show more results tells Stata to continue when it has paused in the middle of longoutput. Click on the arrow to choose whether to run the command to completion.See [GSW] B.8 More for more information.Break stops the current task in Stata. See [GSW] 10 Listing data and basic commandsyntax for more information.

[ GSW ] 2 The Stata user interface3The Command windowCommands are submitted to Stata from the Command window. The Command window supportsbasic text editing, copying and pasting, a command history, function-key mapping, filename completion,and variable-name completion.From the Comman

2 The Stata user interface The windows This chapter introduces the core of Stata’s interface: its main windows, its toolbar, its menus, and its dialogs. The five main windows are the History, Results,

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