STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 4 – Tables and Graphs, Survey estimation
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number of cashew trees
To copy this graph to your word processor,
1. Click on Edit / Copy graph.
You could also right-click on the graph itself
and select “Copy Graph”.
2. Open your word processor and click on Edit / Paste
You will not be able to edit this graph, other than the size,
placement, wrapping of text and other basic aspects allowed by
your word processor.
You can also save a Stata chart to a file.
1. Click on File then Save.
2. A dialog box opens where you can type the name of
the file. The default extension is .gph which is the
format that Stata recognizes as a graph file. If you
save the file with a .gph extension, you can then open
the graph again within Stata. In the filename box, type
Cashew_trees and click on Save.
3. Copy the command from the results window, switch to
the do-file editor and paste the command.
You can also save the graph into several different formats,
such as “windows metafile (wmf)”. Click on the drop-down
arrow next to the box labeled as “Save as Type”: to see the
different formats. Word processors can import a graph with
the extension wmf or tif into a graphic box.
Once the graph window has been closed, you cannot reopen it
unless you have saved the graph to a file. You can rerun the
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