A Step by Step Guide for SPSS and Exercise Studies

20 Data handling
for any analysis that you will subsequently carry out. The commands can be
copied and pasted onto a Syntax file. In a future session, you can re-run the
whole analysis from the Syntax file using the pasted commands. In this way you
avoid saving the output file and all its tables and charts, which usually take up a
lot of memory space. Of course, running the analysis from the Syntax window is
recommended only to experienced SPSS users.
In the Output Labels tab, select labels and names or values and labels.
Labels and names make the interpretation of output tables and charts easier. In
the Pivot Tables tab, you may want to change the style of the tables to one of
the Academic Styles offered. In the Autoscripts tab, you can select a number of
autoscripts. Autoscripts are clusters of commands which are carried out
automatically every time you perform a relevant analysis. For example, you
may not like that, in a bivariate correlation analysis (see Chapter 3) the output
table gives you the correlation coefficient between two variables in both the
upper and lower diagonals. In this case, select the correlations autoscript. Next
time you perform a correlation analysis SPSS will display the correlations in the
lower diagonal only, and will highlight the highest correlation. In Table 2 you
can see the correlation table before, and in Table 3 after, using the correlation
autoscript. For more information on using scripts, see Run Script under the
Utilities menu.
Outline
This option is available only in an Output window. Promote and outline arrange
the headings and titles within a given block of the output. This option should be
familiar to those who use the Outline view in Word.
Table 2