Re: st: How can I transfer the variable labels to excel using the outsheet command?

[Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, A Loumiotis
<antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> When I use the outsheet command the variable names but not the
> variable labels are transferred to excel.
> Is there any way to also transfer the variable labels to excel?

As per the Statalist FAQ, it would be useful if you provided the
_exact_ command you are using.


1. -outsheet- does not have the capacity to write Excel files.  I
suspect you are writing to a CSV (Comma Separate Variables) file and
on your OS (I'll hazard a guess at some M$-Windows variant) this file
extension is associated with M$-Excel so that when double-clicked on
it opens up in that program.

2. The -outsheet- command should be default write out variables that
have labels applied to them using the labels themselves, unless you
have explicitly specified the -nolabel- option (as explained in -man
outsheet-).

So, without knowing what you are doing I suspect you mistakenly using
the -outsheet using filename.csv, comma nolabel- (or similar) syntax,
and if you omit the -nolabel- option you should obtain what you are
after.

Neil

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