User Guide

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Utilities
Sets in Use. Displays the sets used to produce the source variable lists in dialog boxes.
Variables appear on the source lists in alphabetical or file order. The order of sets and
the order of
variableswithinasethavenoeffectonsourcelistvariableorder.By
default, two system-defined sets are in use:
ALLVARIABLES. This set contains all variables in the data file, including new variables
created dur
ing a session.
NEWVARIABLES. This set contains only new variables created during the session.
You can remove these sets from the list and select others, but there must be at least
one set on t
he list. If you don’t remove the ALLVARIABLES set from the Sets in Use
list, any other sets you include are irrelevant.
To Restric
t Dialog Box Source Lists to Defined Variable Sets
E From the m
enus choose:
Utilities
Use Sets...
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Select the defined variable sets that contain the variables that you want to appear in
dialog box source lists.
Reordering Target Variable Lists
Variables appear on dialog box target lists in the order in which they are selected from
the source list. If you want to change the order of variables on a target list—but you
don’t wan
t to deselect all the variables and reselect them in the new order—you can
move variables up and down on the target list using the system menu in the upper left
corner of the dialog box (accessed by clicking the left side of the dialog box title bar).