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98 Entering, Editing, and Managing Data Chapter 3
The Data Filter
Figure 3.64 Data Filter Control Panel
Unavailable (grayed out) until a
selection is made
When you click in a variable box, it highlights. Right-click in a variable box (not on a value) to see the
context menu, illustrated on the middle example of Figure 3.64. The menu command affects only the
highlighted variable.
Nominal and ordinal variables have these commands:
Delete removes the variable from the Data Filter control panel.
Display Options which include the following:
Blocks Display shows each level as a proportional block.
List Display shows each level as a member of a list, followed by its frequency.
Single Category Display shows each level, followed by its frequency, in a menu.
Order by Count orders the variable values by frequency of occurrence whether the variable is
shown as a bar of values or in list form.
Clear Selection clears any selection in effect for that variable only
Invert Selection deselects any selected values, and selects all values previously not selected, for
that variable only.
The context menu for continuous variables has the Delete, Clear Selection, and Invert Selection
commands.