This article describes how to go through your data set and hide questions that have a large number of categories. You may specify the number of categories that you wish to consider large. This can be helpful when you wish to automatically create a large number of tables using one of the built-in functions such as Banner Tables, Summary Tables, Crosstabs, etc. and some of the resulting tables would be too large and hence unhelpful. Rather than sorting through your list of questions to determine which to keep, you can use this feature to first hide any questions that would generate large tables.
Requirements
- Categorical questions with 1 or more categories in your data set.
Method
- From the toolbar, select Automate > Browse Online Library > Hide/Unhide > Hide Questions with Many Categories.
- You will then be prompted to enter a value for the maximum number of categories to keep in a question.
- When you press OK, any question which contains more categories than the value specified will be hidden.
- If you later wish to unhide all these questions, select Automate > Browse Online Library > Hide/Unhide > Unhide Questions with Many Categories. Note that this option will only unhide questions that were hidden using Hide Questions with Many Categories and will not affect questions that were originally hidden by a different method.
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