Re: st: variables copy

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

This is a terrible idea on many levels -- not only can you lose precision 
and labeling, not only does it require you to do something that isn't 
documented or automatically repeatable (through do/log files), but why would 
you ever want to tediously cut and paste columns in Excel when you could 
much more easily just type drop or keep in Stata?  These aren't tricky 
commands.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "b. water" <barleywater@hotmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:50 AM
Subject: RE: st: variables copy



> dear yang li,
>
> my suggestion might be frown upon by others but could get the job done 
> till such time you become comfortable with stata.
>
> put your original data in excel (if it's in stata .dta, copy paste to 
> excel from the editor), highlights those unwanted columns, cut and paste 
> them to another sheet (in case you need them in the future) then copy and 
> paste the columns that you want into stata.
>
> another approach, which i would encourage you if you think you would be 
> stataing for a while is to invest time in understanding joseph's do-file. 
> it can be re-applied ad-infinitum with minor jiggling to another similar 
> problems.
>
> best wishes,
> bw
>
> ps: assuming you have excel that is
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