Associated with each command in Stata is 
something called "help". 
. help tabstat 
or 
. whelp tabstat 
or the equivalent via the menu will bring
up the help for -tabstat-, which among 
other things explains that the -save- option 
saves results to matrices. This is probably 
not what you want here. It is certainly 
nothing to do with files unless you 
also use commands to write the matrix 
to a file, which I suspect is, in total,
more complicated than you want. 
The other possibility advertised yesterday 
was to use Stata's Copy Table facility. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
Sugie Lee
> 
> It worked. Thansk! Gabi.
> But I still need to seek a convenient way to do this job.
> Are there other ways to save the result table in spreadsheet format
> immediately after "tabstat command"?
> I have another question on "tabstat" command.
> I put the option command "save" at the end of "tabstat" command.
> 
> .tabstat pop7 pop8 pop9 pop0, by(city) stats(sum) save
> 
> I believe that the option "save" will save the result of 
> tabstat somewhere.
> I don't know where STATA saved the result. And I don't know 
> how I can pull
> out the result either?
> Do I misunderstand the function of the option "save"?
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