Toolbars provide another method of quickly performing specific tasks. For example, you can launch frequently used procedures or create graphs and charts, all with the click of a toolbar button.

From the menus choose:

View
Toolbars

The Show Toolbars dialog box lists all the toolbars available to the currently selected window.

If it isn't already selected, choose Data Editor from the Document Type list.

Click New Toolbar.

Type My Toolbar as the name of your new toolbar.

This toolbar should only appear in the Data Editor and the Viewer. So, uncheck the boxes next to all the windows except for those two.

Click Customize to add buttons to your toolbar.

Toolbar items are separated into categories. Select a category to view its items.

Select the Data category.

Drag the Split File and Select Cases items to the toolbar.

Select the Analyze category.

Drag the Frequencies and Crosstabs items to the toolbar.

You can create custom toolbar items to run a script file, command syntax file, or another application.

Click New Tool to display the Create New Tool dialog box.

Type Bold Totals in the Label field.

Select Script as the action type.

Click Browse to locate the script file.

Navigate to the Scripts folder in the SPSS installation directory, select Make totals bold.sbs, and click Open.

Click OK to finish creating your new toolbar item.

Custom toolbar items are displayed in the User-Defined category. Custom menu items created with the Menu Editor are also displayed in this category.

Drag the Bold Totals item to the toolbar.

Click OK in all the open dialog boxes to return to the Data Editor.

Your new toolbar is now displayed in the Data Editor window.