SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

REPORT 1429
• The specification on TITLE or FOOTNOTE is the title or footnote in apostrophes or quotation
marks. To specify a multiple-line title or footnote, enclose each line in apostrophes
or quotation marks and separate the specifications for each line by at least one blank.
• The default REPORT title is the title specified on the TITLE command. If there is no TITLE
command specified in your session, the default REPORT title is the first line of the header.
• Titles begin on the first line of the report page. Footnotes end on the last line of the report page.
• Titles and footnotes are repeated on each page of a multiple-page report.
• The positional keywords LEFT, CENTER, and RIGHT can each be specified once. The
default is CENTER.
• If the total width needed for the combined titles or footnotes for a line exceeds the page
width, REPORT generates an error message.
LEFT Left-justify titles or footnotes within the report page margins.
RIGHT Right-justify titles or footnotes within the report page margins.
CENTER Center titles and footnotes within the report page width.
The following can be specified as part of the title or footnote.
)PAGE Display the page number right-justified in a five-character field.
)DATE Display the current date in the form dd/mmm/yy, right-justified in a ninecharacter
field.
)var Display this variable’s value label at this position. If you specify a variable
that has no value label, the value is displayed, formatted according to its print
format. You cannot specify a scratch or system variable or a variable created
with the STRING subcommand. If you want to use a variable named DATE or
PAGE in the file, change the variable’s name with the RENAME VARIABLES
command before you use it on the TITLE or FOOTNOTE subcommands, to
avoid confusion with the )PAGE and )DATE keywords.
• )PAGE, )DATE, and )var are specified within apostrophes or quotation marks and can be
mixed with string segments within the apostrophes or quotation marks.
• A variable specified on TITLE or FOOTNOTE must be defined in the working data file, but
does not need to be included as a column on the report.
• One label or value from each variable specified on TITLE or FOOTNOTE is displayed on
every page of the report. If a new page starts with a case listing, REPORT takes the value
label from the first case listed. If a new page starts with a BREAK line, REPORT takes the
value label from the first case of the new break group. If a new page starts with a summary
line, REPORT takes the value label from the last case of the break group being summarized.
Example
/TITLE=LEFT ’Personnel Report’ ’Prepared on )DATE’
RIGHT ’Page: )PAGE’
• TITLE specifies two lines for a left-justified title and one line for a right-justified title.
These titles are displayed at the top of each page of the report.
• The second line of the left-justified title contains the date on which the report was processed.