The PSPP Graphical User Interface
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This chapter provides a description of the PSPP graphical user interface.

Primary Windows
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The PSPP graphical user interface provides a set of windows through which you store, edit and analyze data. You can choose to perform tasks and operations through interactive drop down menus in the data editor window or through command line statements entered in the syntax editor.The three primary windows include the Data Editor, Syntax Editor, and the Output Viewer.

Data Editor

     The data editor window is central to PSPP and launches when you start a session. This window is similar in organization to a spreadsheet, where data is stored and edited in columns and rows of cells.

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Syntax Editor

     The syntax editor window is where you enter command line instructions to edit, import and analyze data. This has the advantage of enabling batch processing and code reuse. You can launch the syntax editor from the data editor window by selecting File->Open->Syntax.

Output Viewer

     This window pops up after the execution of an instruction set and displays the instructions executed and results of statistical analyses including, text, tables, and charts.

Data Editor
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The data editor has two views; data view shows the numerical value held by each datum and variable view displays the metadictionary data of each variable.  You can toggle between the two views by clicking on the Data View or Variable View tab at the bottom left hand corner of the data editor.