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Choose Define Variable from the cursors menu.
From the dialogue box select the names of one or more variables you wish to define
from the current cursors or selected static bar position.
Select the buttons to state whether you want to define the variable(s) from the current
cursors or the selected static bar.
Choose OK.
Immediately after you define the variable, the variable view window will appear, allowing
you to check its value.
Viewing defined variables
You can view any variables which have been defined, by using the variables view. The
variables view automatically appears whenever you define variables, but you can look at
defined variables at any time.
To see the variables view:
Choose View Variables from the Views menu.
Exporting variables to other Windows applications
You can copy defined variables and export them to another application. The variables are
copied to the windows clipboard as a line of text, and can be pasted into spreadsheets
and other windows applications using the paste command.
To export variables:
If it is not selected already, select the variables view by choosing the View Variables
command from the Views menu.
Choose Copy from the Edit menu.
A dialogue box will ask whether you wish to export variables names. If you choose
yes, the names you have given to variables will be placed on the clipboard above the
figures. Usually, this is only necessary when you start a new spreadsheet/database,
so that you can see the column headings for the figures.
From the Start Menu, open the spreadsheet or database to which you want to export
the variables.
From within the spreadsheet/database, use the commands for pasting data from the
clipboard on a new line in the database. In most applications this will involve positioning
some kind of cursor at the end of the database, and choosing the Paste command from
the Edit menu. See the user guide to your spreadsheet/database for application specific
information on exporting variables.