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WINCROSS® What’s New Guide

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Version 15

The Analytical Group, Inc. WinCross 15 What’s New 2

Version 15

Copyright 1994–2015, The Analytical Group, Inc.

Editor: Coco Lauerman

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Table of Contents

New Feature Highlights for Version 15 ................................................................................................................. 5

New Editable Data Grid for SPSS Data Files .................................................................................................... 7

Combine, Sort and Merge for SPSS Data Files ................................................................................................. 9

Save SPSS Data Files to Delimited File Types .................................................................................................. 10

New File|Save|Save Data Option ....................................................................................................................... 10

SPSS Data Files Opened in Edit Mode by Default ............................................................................................ 10

New SPSS Differing “Print” and “Write” Formats ............................................................................................... 10

Compatibility with latest version of SPSS® ........................................................................................................ 11

Odd/Even Row Colorization on WinCross Grids ................................................................................................ 11

Create Multiple Banners from Multiple Tables ................................................................................................... 12

Apply Options to Similar Banners ....................................................................................................................... 13

Banner Editor Features ...................................................................................................................................... 14

String Substitution for USE Statements ............................................................................................................. 16

New Mean Confidence Intervals for Table and Row Means .............................................................................. 17

Background Color Options ................................................................................................................................. 18

Save, Browse and Cell Borders Excel Options .................................................................................................. 19

Recent Folders for Open Data ........................................................................................................................... 22

Index Statement Map ......................................................................................................................................... 23

Data File Information .......................................................................................................................................... 24

View Enhanced Text Reports in Most Internet Browsers ................................................................................... 25

Job Logos for Enhanced Text Reports ............................................................................................................... 25

New Table Resize Option for Enhanced Text Reports ...................................................................................... 26

Express Tables from SPSS Data ....................................................................................................................... 27

Create One or Many Tables with One Frequency Row Each ............................................................................ 27

Save Multiple Factor Analysis Specification Files per Job ................................................................................. 28

Glossary Statements .......................................................................................................................................... 29

Logic Limit Increased ......................................................................................................................................... 29

Process Standard Error and Standard Deviation using CALC ........................................................................... 29

New Effective Sample Size Option for Small Sample Size ................................................................................ 30

Specify Type for Medians and Quartiles ............................................................................................................ 31

“Drag and Drop” for Memorized Report Files ..................................................................................................... 31

Row Options for Multiple Rows .......................................................................................................................... 32

New Statistics Decimal Place Row Options ....................................................................................................... 32

Adding Frequency Rows Simplified.................................................................................................................... 33

New Significance Display Options for Enhanced Text Reports ......................................................................... 34

Calculate to a Custom Sample Size for Sample Balancing ............................................................................... 35


Setup Menu/Job Settings Changes .................................................................................................................... 35

New Setup|Tables Options ................................................................................................................................. 36

Renumber a Selected Group of Contiguous Tables .......................................................................................... 36

New Blank Column Character Option ................................................................................................................ 37

Show Values, Percent and Labels for Most Chart Types .................................................................................. 38

Text Box Entry Simplified ................................................................................................................................... 39

Total # of Significant Differences ....................................................................................................................... 40


What’s New in WinCross Version 15 WinCross 15 has been enhanced to include new features we hope you will find helpful and easy to understand.

New Feature Highlights for Version 15:

Edit, combine, sort or merge your SPSS data files directly within WinCross with no need for SPSS.

Save your SPSS data file as a comma-delimited (*.csv) or tab-delimited (*.tsv or *.tab) file for use in Excel.

Save valuable reload time now that edited data can be saved to the open data file with the new Save Data option.

SPSS data files now open in edit mode by default in preparation for those last minute data changes.

Let WinCross adjust differing “Print” and “Write” widths with the new detection warning dialog for SPSS data.

Compatibility with the latest version of SPSS.

New odd/even row colorization on WinCross grids provides an easy-to-read visual transition between rows and can easily be toggled on or off using View|Colored Grids.

Create Banners from Tables has added new, time-saving multi-select functionality that lets you create multiple banners from a selected group of tables.

Edit one banner and apply the changes to other similar banners using the new, time-saving Apply Options to Similar Banners feature.

The New page before column option of the Banner Editor adds another level of customization for reports by allowing you to indicate where the banner will break for a new page.

Colorize groups of banner columns for easier identification using the new Background column color option of the Banner Editor.

Reduce time spent creating Comparison Groups for long banners using the new Edit Comparison Groups As Text option of the Banner Editor.

Provide more descriptive column headings with the increased banner column width maximum of 100.

Save time defining table logic with the new string substitution for USE statements.

Show your clients more detailed mean statistics on reports using the new Mean confidence intervals (lower and upper) for table or row means.

Provide new color detail for Enhanced Text and Excel reports at the row and cell type level and for table statistics rows using new options added to Background Colors.

Struggling to remember the Excel Options you used the last time you processed those tables is a thing of the past with the new Save and Browse options.

The new options of Cell Borders and Show or hide % sign as specified in Table Options provide new customization preferences for Excel reports.

Recently used folders are now available from the Recent folders dropdown list on the Open Data dialog to save you time trying to recall where you saved that last data file.

Save time trying to trouble-shoot those extensive INDEX statements using the new INDEX Statement Map option on the View menu.

Information about your variable data file is now presented in an easy-to-read grid with visually pleasing gradient colors.

Save Data File Information to a text or comma-delimited file for use as a reference guide for you and/or your client.

You can now view your Enhanced Text Reports in most internet browsers, add a second job logo and use new Job logo placement options for added customization.

Preserve the font size you specified for your Enhanced Text Reports with the new Table Resize option of Job Settings|Page Layout.

Save time editing your Summary of Frequency tables with the new Use value labels as row text and Show filter row options in Express Tables from SPSS Data.


Express Tables from SPSS Data extends its table creation capability by offering a new option to create multiple tables from selected variables with one Frequency row per table.

For your convenience, multiple Factor Analysis specification files per job can be saved and loaded when needed.

New maximum of 1024 characters per Glossary statement provides greater flexibility when defining, assigning, recoding, computing or looping through variables and creating INDEX or TEST statements.

Reducing the number of Glossary statements just got easier now that Glossary looping allows the use of DEFINE statements.

Identify problem data more quickly with Glossary TEST statements now allowing the use of variables defined in the Glossary.

Save time redefining long logic with the new limit of 1024 characters per logic line.

The CALC feature has been expanded and can now process Standard Error and Standard Deviation.

Effective sample size can now be specified for Column display suppression/denotation and Column testing suppression/denotation for added flexibility in identifying small sample sizes.

WinCross now provides another statistical preference option allowing you to choose the Median and/or Quartile type of Interpolated or Medoid for your tables.

The convenience of “Drag and drop” has been added for Memorized report files.

Save lots of editing time now that Row Options can be specified for more than one row at a time.

The new Statistic decimal places and Variability decimal places row options provide more detailed report customization.

The new simplified process for adding Frequency rows to your tables takes the guess work out of this task.

The Suppress blank lines after sig. and Position of significance indicators options, previously only available for Excel reports from the Run Tables dialog, are now available for use with Enhanced Text Reports allowing for greater report-formatting flexibility.

Sample Balancing now offers the Calculate to a custom sample size option previously available for Simple Weighting only.

Setup Menu options for Job Title and Plain Text Report Font have been incorporated into the Job Settings tabs to help streamline the job setup process.

The Setup Menu option of Enhanced Text Report Fonts and Colors is now routed to a new Job Settings tab to further streamline the job setup process.

More user-friendly streamlining changes include new Move Up, Move Down and Delete options for tables, new Move Up, Move Down, Delete and Reverse options for rows and the logical rearranging of other Setup Tables options.

The Renumber option on the Setup Tables dialog can now be used for a selected group of contiguous tables helping to simplify the table renumbering process.

The Table Presentation tab of Job Settings now lets you specify a different blank cell character based on the entire column being blank from the blank cell character used when only some cells in a column are blank.

The Show values, Show percents and Show labels options are now available for most chart types giving you more control over the chart detail provided.

Most of the text dialog boxes in WinCross now allow you to enter up to four lines of text using the return key for text breaks alleviating the need for pipe characters in those text boxes.

Helpful statistical testing overview information has been added to the WinCross report log.


New Editable Data Grid for SPSS Data Files

WinCross 15 offers a new data grid for editing your SPSS data files. The new data grid opens automatically when an SPSS data file is opened and is opened by default in “Edit mode”.

The new data grid has two views of the data, the Data tab view of the actual data and the Variables tab view of the data structure.

The Data tab displays the actual values and lets you:

Change data values Cut, copy, paste and delete data values Add, insert and delete records Sort records by variable values Add, insert and delete variables


The Variables tab displays the data structure and lets you:

Change the data structure attributes of variables Cut, copy, paste and delete variable attribute values Add, insert and delete variables

See the WinCross online Help topics “Editing SPSS data”, “Data tab (SPSS data grid)” or “Variables tab (SPSS data grid)” for more detailed information about the new editable data grid for SPSS data files.


Combine, Sort and Merge for SPSS Data Files

The Tools menu now offers a new Combine, Sort and Merge SPSS Files option. This new option allows you to combine, sort or merge SPSS (*.sav) or comma-delimited (*.csv) data files into one SPSS (*.sav) data file.

You can:

Join two files together (Add variables) Merge two or more files together (Add records) Sort a file by one or more variables

The Join option is especially useful in joining closed end and open end questions from two separate files into one SPSS (*.sav) file.

The Merge option can be helpful for example, when you want to merge wave one of a study with wave two of a study into one SPSS (*.sav) file that can be processed together.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Tools Menu|Combine, Sort and Merge SPSS Files” for more detailed information about this new feature.


Save SPSS Data Files to Delimited File Types

You can now save your SPSS data file as a comma-delimited (*.csv) or tab-delimited (*.tsv or *.tab) file using File|Save|Save Data As. Your delimited file can then be opened in Excel and saved as an Excel (*.xlsx or *.xls) file.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Save Data As” for more detailed information about saving your SPSS data file.

New File|Save|Save Data Option

The File|Save menu has a new Save Data option that allows you to save data file changes to the currently open data file. The changes are saved and the modified data file is automatically reloaded for you.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Save Data” for more detailed information about saving changes to your data file.

SPSS Data Files Opened in Edit Mode by Default

SPSS data files are now automatically opened in “edit mode” by default. You have the option to Open in read-only mode on the Open Data dialog when opening an SPSS data file.

This new default allows you to make those last minute data changes without having to reopen the data file for edit mode.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Open Data” for more detailed information about this new default.

New SPSS Differing “Print” and “Write” Formats

When opening an SPSS data file in WinCross 15, WinCross now detects when variables have differing Print (Width, Decimals or Format) formats (Print Format in SPSS is Field Format in WinCross) and Write (Width, Decimals or Format) formats (Write Format in SPSS is Export Format in WinCross).

You have the option to let WinCross adjust the widths and save the data file for you or to cancel and make the corrections manually using SPSS.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Print Width differs from Write Width warning” for more detailed information about this new warning message and the options available.


Compatibility with latest version of SPSS

WinCross 15 is compatible with SPSS version 22. For compatibility with WinCross, we recommend saving files in SPSS using Locale (code page) encoding.

Odd/Even Row Colorization on WinCross Grids

The new odd/even row colorization on WinCross grids provides an easy-to-read visual transition between rows.

You can easily toggle this colorization on or off using the new View|Colored Grids option of the View menu.

See the WinCross online Help topic “View|Colored Grids” for more detailed information about this new option.


Create Multiple Banners from Multiple Tables

The Create Banners from Tables option of Setup|Banners will now let you select multiple tables at once.

The table rows from the selected tables become the banner columns for the new banners. You cannot choose the Table rows to use for Banner columns when multiple tables are selected.

The Table title from the selected banner becomes the Banner name and Banner title for the new banner.

This option is especially useful if you want to create a group of banners from a group of tables (for example, a set of product rating scales). Once created, you can assign banner options to the first new banner using Edit Banner. Then, use the new Apply Options to Similar Banners feature to copy the options from the first new rating scale banner to the remainder of the new rating scale banners without having to individually assign the same options to each banner.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Create Banners from Tables” for more detailed information about the new multi-select functionality for creating banners.


Apply Options to Similar Banners

The new Apply Options to Similar Banners feature of Setup|Banners lets you copy specific banner options from one banner to other similar banners as long as the similar banners have the same number of columns as the original banner.

This option is especially useful if you want to create a group of banners from a group of tables (for example, a set of product rating scales). Using Create Banners from Tables, you can create multiple banners from multiple tables at one time. Once created, you can assign banner options to the first new banner using Edit Banner. Apply Options to Similar Banners allows you to copy the options from the first new rating scale banner to the remainder of the new rating scale banners without having to individually assign the same options to each banner.

Banner options applied include options from the following tabs/options on the Banner Editor dialog:

Width and Spacing tab Options tab Horizontal/Constant Percents tab Weights tab Comparison Groups tab Statistical Testing

See the WinCross online Help topic “Apply Options to Similar Banners” for more detailed information about this new feature.


Banner Editor Features

The Edit Banner option of Setup|Banners has some new noteworthy features. New features include New page before column and Background column color on the Options tab and Edit Comparison Groups As Text on the Comparison Groups tab.

The New page before column option on the Options tab of the Banner Editor lets you specify a page break for banners that, when printing will span multiple pages.

The Background column color option on the Options tab of the Banner Editor lets you assign background color to a column or groups of column (for example, all of the columns in a Comparison Group) for easier identification.

Note: The new Background column color option takes precedence over Background Colors assigned to Comparison Groups for Enhanced Text Reports or Excel Reports.


The Edit Comparison Groups As Text option on the Comparison Groups tab of the Banner Editor provides a shortcut assignment of comparison groups by column number. This new time-saving feature is especially helpful for long banners with many columns.

The maximum Column width for banner columns has been increased to 100 characters on the Width and Spacing tab of the Banner Editor.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Options tab (Edit Banner)”, “Comparison Groups tab (Edit Banner)” and “Width and Spacing tab (Edit Banner)” for more detailed information about these new Banner Editor features.


String Substitution for USE Statements

The USE statement that lets you use already-created rows in a new table has been enhanced to include string substitution.

For example, if your original table has the following row logic:

Quality of support^ Q1_SALES_SUPPORT (1)^

Timeliness of support^ Q2_SALES_SUPPORT (2)^

Follow-up^ Q3_SALES_SUPPORT (3)^

and you have a new table that will use the same row text and the only difference in the logic is a portion of the variable names used (Q1_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT, Q2_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT and Q3_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT), the new string substitution for USE statements is the perfect solution:

USE=Q1-3,”SALES”=”TECHNICAL” (where Q1-3 is the table name of the original table)

or

USE=10,”SALES”=”TECHNICAL” (where 10 is the index number of the Q1-3 table)

See the WinCross online Help topic “Use Rows for more detailed information about this new string substitution for the USE statement.


New Mean Confidence Intervals for Table and Row Means

Upper and lower Mean confidence intervals can now be specified for table means using the Statistics option of Setup|Tables or for row means using the Row Options of Setup|Tables.

Upper and lower Mean confidence intervals can now be specified for row means using the Row Options of Setup|Tables.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Table Statistics” or “Row Options” for more detailed information about these new options.


Background Color Options

Background Report Colors can now be specified for every other row, every other line, lines by cell type and the table statistics area. You can also choose whether to extend the comparison group column color into the banner and table statistics areas.

These new options have been added to the Background Report Colors dialog for both Enhanced Text Reports (Setup|Job Settings|Enhanced Text Reports) and Excel Reports (Run|Tables|Excel Options|Use custom colors).

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Enhanced Text Reports” or “Excel Options” for more detailed information about these new options.


Save, Browse and Cell Borders Excel Options

Excel Options can now be saved for future use taking the guesswork out of trying to remember what options you specified the last time you processed a particular set of tables. The new options of Cell borders and Show or hide % sign as specified in Table Options provide more customization preferences for your Excel reports.

The new Plain output option produces an Excel report with no background colors and no cell borders. This is a quick and easy way to disable background colors and cell borders.

Use the new Save and Save As options to save Excel Options for a particular job. The Saved Excel options dropdown list allows you to choose from a list of previously saved Excel Options located in the same folder as your job and data file, or use Browse to find Excel Options saved in a different location.


The Excel Border Options dialog includes a selection of border options or None for the Table border, Outside row border or Inside row border. You can use the Disable cell borders option to set all border options to None.

Note: When setting a Table border option other than None, the Excel report will begin in column B. To begin your Excel report in column A, choose the Table border option of None.

The new WinCross defaults for Cell Borders include a Table border, an Outside row border and an Inside row border for tables and no border for cells outside of the WinCross tables.


Formatting options for Excel reports includes a new option for showing % signs on tables based on the Show percent sign (%) setting specified in Setup|Tables|Table Options. This new option allows you to display % signs on some tables without having to display % signs on all tables.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Excel Options” for more detailed information about these new Excel Options.


Recent Folders for Open Data

The Open Data dialog now provides a Recent folders dropdown list for easy recall of previously open data files.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Open Data” for more detailed information about this new feature.


INDEX Statement Map

View|INDEX Statement Map allows you to trouble-shoot those extensive INDEX statements in the Glossary by providing an easy-to-read grid that can be saved as an Excel file. Index statements using the Repeat (R) feature are automatically expanded to show all of the variables or card/column locations included in that Repeat (R).

The INDEX Map tab expands the index statements to show the variables or card/column locations specified and the width of each variable.

The INDEX Statements tab displays the index statements as they appear in the Glossary.

See the WinCross online Help topic “View|INDEX Statement Map” for more detailed information about this new feature.


Data File Information

Data File Information is now presented in an easy-to-read grid with visually pleasing gradient colors and can be saved to a text or comma-delimited file as a reference guide for you and/or your client.

View|Data File Information displays information about your data file.

Once viewed, you can save your Data File Information to a text or comma-delimited file using File|Save|Save Data File Information As.

See the WinCross online Help topics “View|Data File Information” or “Save Data File Information” for more detailed information about viewing and saving Data File Information.


View Enhanced Text Reports in Most Internet Browsers

View|Report in Browser now lets you view your Enhanced Text Reports in most Internet Browsers. You are no longer limited to viewing only in Internet Explorer.

See the WinCross online Help topic “View|Report in Browser” for more detailed information about viewing considerations for Enhanced Text Reports.

Job Logos for Enhanced Text Reports

Job Logo 2 has been added to the Report elements list for Enhanced Text Reports with new placement options for Top of page and Bottom of page.

Job logo 1 has new placement options of Above table, Above table title, Below table and Below footnote.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Job Settings|Enhanced Text Reports” for more detailed information about these Job Logo enhancements.


New Table Resize Option for Enhanced Text Reports

The Page Layout tab of Job Settings has a new Table resizing option for Enhanced Text Reports.

Wrap any wide tables onto the next page of the report without reducing the font size has been added to the Table resizing options for Enhanced Text Reports. Tables will not be resized and will use the font size(s) selected using the Setup|Job Settings|Enhanced Text Reports tab. This new option is now the WinCross default for table resizing of Enhanced Text Reports.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Job Settings|Page Layout” for more detailed information about using this new option.


Express Tables from SPSS Data

The Summary of Frequencies option of Express Tables from SPSS Data has two new options that will save you editing time when creating tables.

Use value labels as row text can be used when only one Code Value is specified when creating Summary of Frequencies tables. This is especially helpful when you have a group of variables and the code value you are interested in for each variable also has the value label you would like as your row text. For example, if variables Q7_1 through Q7_10 all have code values of “1” or “0” were the code value “1” also has the value label for each fast food restaurant visited in the last 30 days, you would want those value labels to be used as row text.

The default for Summary of Frequencies tables is to suppress the filter row. The new Show filter row option gives you the opportunity to edit this default.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Express Tables from SPSS Data” for more detailed information about using these new options.

Create One or Many Tables with One Frequency Row Each

Express Tables from SPSS Data has a new table creation option for creating tables with Frequency rows. You have the option to Create 1 Table with a Single Frequency Row when only one variable is selected or to Create n Tables with One Freq. Row Each when multiple variables are selected.

A Frequency row will generate a row for each value using the actual values in the data as row text.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Express Tables from SPSS Data” for more detailed information about using this new option.


Save Multiple Factor Analysis Specification Files per Job

You can now save multiple Factor Analysis specification files per job.

The new Save As option of Run|Factor Analysis lets you save the factor analysis specification file to a file name (*.fac) and location of your choosing. This allows you to have multiple factor analysis specification files per job.

The new Load option lets you open a factor analysis specification file (*.fac) choosing a different file name, folder or file path from where the open job file currently resides.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Factor Analysis: Variable data” or “Factor Analysis: ASCII data” for more detailed information about using these new options.


Glossary Statements

There is a new maximum of 1024 characters per Glossary statement. This new maximum provides greater flexibility for use in DEFINE, ASSIGN, RECODE, COMPUTE and LOOP statements.

To help reduce the total number of Glossary statements, you can now use DEFINE statements within Glossary looping.

Glossary TEST statements now allow the use of variables defined in the Glossary helping to identify problem data more quickly.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Glossary Variables”, “Looping logic” or “Glossary Tests and Global Variables” for more detailed information about using these new features.

Logic Limit Increased

There is a new maximum of 1024 characters per line of logic. This new maximum reduces the need to redefine long logic in the Glossary for use in banner logic, table logic, filter logic, etc.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Maximums” for more information about WinCross limitations.

Process Standard Error and Standard Deviation using CALC

The CALC instruction has been expanded to include processing for Standard Error and Standard Deviation.

E = Standard Error D = Standard Deviation

For example, the following CALC instruction will process Means, Standard Deviation and Standard Error

CALC M1+M2,D1+D2,E1+E2

See the WinCross online Help topic “CALC Feature” for more information about the CALC instruction and these expanded options.


New Effective Sample Size Option for Small Sample Size

Effective sample size can now be specified as the base for Column display suppression/denotation and Column testing suppression/denotation on the Small Sample Size tab of Job Settings and Profile Settings.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Small Sample Size” or “Profile Settings|Small Sample Size” for more information about this new specification.


Specify Type for Medians and Quartiles

WinCross has added a new Type specification of Medoid for the Median and Quartile statistics. The WinCross default Type remains Interpolated however, the addition of Medoid adds another statistical preference option.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Statistics” or “Profile Settings|Statistics” for more information about this new Type option for Medians and Quartiles.

“Drag and Drop” for Memorized Report Files

The convenience of “Drag and drop” has been added for Memorized report files. You can drag Memorized report files (*.wmr) to WinCross and the Run Memorized Report File dialog will be opened and populated with the selected Memorized report files (*.wmr).

See the WinCross online Help topic “Memorized Reports” for more information about creating and processing Memorized reports.


Row Options for Multiple Rows

Row Options can now be specified for more than one row at a time saving you valuable editing time.

When multiple rows are selected, any change to row options will be set for all of the selected rows.

A warning message is issued when you select rows that do not all share the same row options.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Row Options” for more information about using Row Options.

New Statistics Decimal Place Row Options

Row Options now allows you to set the number of decimal places for statistics (Mean, Median, Minimum or Maximum) or variability (Standard deviation, Standard error) by row instead of just at the table level.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Row Options” for more information about these new Row Options.


Adding Frequency Rows Simplified

The Add Freq Row option of Setup|Tables has been simplified and can now be completed using one dialog.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Add Frequency Row” for more information about adding frequency rows.


New Significance Display Options for Enhanced Text Reports

The Run Tables dialog has two new options for Enhanced Text Reports that offers report formatting flexibility previously only available for Excel reports.

You can now suppress the blank line that normally prints after a line with significance testing items using the Suppress blank lines after sig. option.

The new Position of significance indicators relative to the value dropdown now lets you choose where you want to display your significance indicators.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Run|Tables” for more information about using these new options for Enhanced Text Reports.


Calculate to a Custom Sample Size for Sample Balancing

The Run Sample Balancing dialog now allows you to Calculate to a custom sample size.

The weights will be calculated to the Custom sample size entered and only the weights are adjusted.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Sample Balancing: Variable data” or “Sample Balancing: ASCII data” for more information about this new option.

Setup Menu/Job Settings Changes

The Setup|Job Title and Setup|Plain Text Report Font options of the Setup Menu have been incorporated into the Job Settings tabs of Job Settings|Job Title and Job Settings|Page Layout to help streamline the job setup process.

The Setup Menu option of Enhanced Text Report Fonts and Colors is now routed to a new Enhanced Text Reports tab on the Job Settings dialog to continue streamlining the job setup process.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Job Title”, “Job Settings|Page Layout” or “Job Settings|Enhanced Text Report Fonts and Colors” for more information about these options and their new Job Settings menu locations.


New Setup|Tables Options

The Setup Tables dialog has new Move Up, Move Down and Delete options for tables and Move Up, Move Down, Reverse and Delete options for rows.

Other table options have been logically rearranged for a more user-friendly experience when creating or modifying tables.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Tables”, “Move Up/Move Down (Tables)”, “Move Up/Move Down (Rows)” or “Reverse (Rows)” for more information about these new and rearranged options.

Renumber a Selected Group of Contiguous Tables

The Renumber option of Setup|Tables now allows you to select a group of contiguous tables and renumber only the selected tables.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Renumber” for more information about renumbering tables.


New Blank Column Character Option

The Table Presentation tab of Job Settings and Profile Settings has a new Blank column characters option. This allows you to enter a different blank cell character when an entire column is blank versus a blank cell character when only some cells are blank. This can be helpful when trying to identify report results.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Table Presentation” or “Profile Settings|Table Presentation” for more information about this new option.


Show Values, Percents and Labels for Most Chart Types

The Show values, Show percents and Show labels options on the Chart Type tab of the Setup Chart Content dialog are now available for use with most chart types.

For example, you can now show the actual values (see percents highlighted in the example below) above each data point of the chart.

See the WinCross online Help topic “Chart Content|Chart Type tab” for more information about the expanded use of these options.


Text Box Entry Simplified

You can now use the Enter key to enter up to four lines of text in most of the WinCross text boxes. This simplifies trying to identify where you want the text to break to the next line and eliminates the need for pipe characters in the text boxes.

When you select the Enter key to skip to the next line, the pipe character is automatically entered in the WinCross job file for you.

See the WinCross online Help topics “Job Settings|Job Title” or “Profile Settings|Job Title” as one example of how this new text box entry method works.


Total # of Significant Differences

The WinCross Report Log now includes the Total # of significant differences providing helpful statistical testing overview information.

See the WinCross online Help topic “View|Report Log” for more information about the information provided.

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