Text Wizard: Step 5

This steps controls the variable name and the data format that the Text Wizard will use to read each variable and which variables will be included in the final data file.

Variable name. You can overwrite the default variable names with your own variable names. If you read variable names from the data file, the Text Wizard will automatically modify variable names that don't conform to variable naming rules. Select a variable in the preview window and then enter a variable name. For information on variable naming rules, see Variable Names.

Data format. Select a variable in the preview window and then select a format from the drop-down list. Shift-click to select multiple contiguous variables or Ctrl-click to select multiple noncontiguous variables.

The default format is determined from the data values in the first 250 rows. If more than one format (e.g., numeric, date, string) is encountered in the first 250 rows, the default format is set to string.