How do I save result tables?

[Holch]

I am starting to play with Sofastats and within 5min I had my first reports and it was so much quicker than with Excel, so this was great.

But now I am somehow running into a problem. When I close Sofa, the crosstabs that I create are gone. I can export the results and everything, so OK. But what if I want to continue working on my results tables / report? Somehow there is no way to save the reports that I have created to work on them later, modify them, etc.

Maybe I am doing it wrong, but I just can't find a way to do that.

For example I did my whole analysis. But I noticed that I did it with the wrong dataset. Now I would like to use a different data set with some corrections, but run exactly the same analisis, with the same labels, etc. without having to create it from scratch.

How can I do this?

[Alastair Gordon]

Hi .... The developer (Grant) may be able to say more, but:

- Sofa does not (to my knowledge) have a way to store batch commands for each analysis you do, so with a new data-set you will have to rerun each of the  analyses and re-enter chart titles I am afraid. It's an amazing programme for a freeware, but it swaps ease of use for some of these advanced data-handling features you get in SPSS etc.

- However, if you are using the same project (usually default project demo) for both then if your variable label (first row in your spreadsheet) in the revised data-set has the same name (.e.g. 'Q1 Gender') as in the old data sheet then I believe your new data will still have all the old question labels & and value names etc. as in the old one so you should not have to re-enter those!

Good luck.

[Holger Rothemund]

Hi Alastair, thank you for the reply!

I loved the experience to create the report and in general, things where easy to understand and everything.

Unfortuantely I guess I will have to look into PSPP or similar (or even go back to Excel), because if I have to create the reports over and over again, I think I will loose too much time.

It is very common that I might have to run the same analysis again and again and if I have to put the report together each time, this will be time consuming.

Best regards,
Holger

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