>This is probably a simple question, if you have the syntax manual for >SPSS 6.1, but I don't! > >I have a database given to me by someone else. It has 20 >categorical variables, with 14 categories for each, all the same. >None are labelled. I want to label all 20 variables the same: >etc etc

Many thanks to all those who helped me with this problem - I discovered that my previous attempts to do what everyone recommended were hampered by a stray hard return in the syntax (between the list of variable names and the value labels), which caused error messages which I misinterpreted as not being able to the command at all!

Also many thanks to those who pointed out that 'problem20' was too long a variable name - when I rechecked this morning it was 'proble20'. I was just in a hurry to get home last night!

Mary Tully Research Fellow Department of Pharmacy University of Manchester Oxford Road MANCHESTER M13 9PL UK

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