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86 Entering, Editing, and Managing Data Chapter 3
Editing Data and Tables
Figure 3.46 Naming and Defining the Table Variable
4 Click OK. The table variable appears in the tables panel.
Viewing or Editing Table Variables
1 Click the information you entered as the variable’s value. The value is highlighted, as shown in
Figure 3.47.
Figure 3.47 Click the Variable’s Value to View or Edit Its Value
2 Click it a second time. The cursor becomes an I-beam cursor.
3 Edit its value.
Editing Table Variable Names
1 Double-click its name. Or, right-click (hold the CONTROL key and click on Macintosh) its name
or value and select Edit. The window in Figure 3.46 appears.
2 Edit its name.
To delete a table variable, right-click (hold the CONTROL key and click on Macintosh) its name or
value and select Delete.
Example of Using a Table Variable
Table variables can be especially useful when you need to combine two or more data tables. For
example, suppose two trials were conducted at two different hospitals. One of the trials’ data is in a
table called Cancer1.jmp, and the other is in Cancer2.jmp. To consolidate the data into one table,
select Tables > Concatenate. (See “Concatenating Data Tables,” p. 241, for details.) If you created
table variables in Cancer1.jmp and Cancer2.jmp then those variables are also concatenated and appear
as columns in the concatenated table, as shown in Figure 3.48.