Save Data As

Save Data As lets you save a data file to a new or existing file name and/or type. Alternatively, you can select Shift+Ctrl+S to save a data file to a new or existing file name and/or type.

You can choose from the following options for saving your data file:

To a Local Destination

Saves your data file to a local or network folder of your choice.
You can choose from the Recent folders dropdown list to locate a desired folder.
If you want to manually enter a filename, click anywhere within the File name: field and type the name. You will need to include the full filepath if you want the data file to reside in a folder other than that displayed.

ASCII fixed (*) data files

ASCII fixed (*) data files can only be saved as the same type as the open data file using File|Save|Save Data As.

Other data files

Other data files can be saved as ASCII fixed (*), SPSS (*.sav), comma-delimited (*.csv), tab-delimited (*.tab, *.tsv), or MS Excel (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm) using File|Save|Save Data As.
When the variable-type data file is being saved as ASCII fixed (*) format, the Export Width of each variable on the Variables tab of the data grid is used for saving the data.
When the data file is saved as a new file name or file type, the new file is opened in WinCross.
When saving a non-SPSS variable data file with variable names to an SPSS (*.sav) data file and the variable names are out of compliance with SPSS rules, WinCross will rename the variables for you and issue a message letting you know how many variables were renamed. For example, the variable name Q2-R1 in an Excel data file (*.xls or *.xlsx) would be renamed to Q2R1 when saving that Excel data file (*.xls or *.xlsx) to an SPSS (*.sav) data file. If the variable name Q2R1 was already being used in the data file, WinCross would assign another unique variable name (e.g. Q2R100002) to prevent duplicate variable names.

Write value labels in place of code values

Data files can be saved using the value labels in place of code values by enabling the Write value labels in place of code values option.
Variables are converted to a Type of String and the Field Width is changed to accommodate the widest value label in the data.
Any outlier in the data that is not represented by a code value with a corresponding value label, will remain that value in the data file (for example, for the variable GENDER, if code value 1 = Male and code value 2 = Female and there is a code value 3 in the data, the data will contain "Male", "Female" and "3").