Output Format Suggested Data Analyzing Tool Targeted User Difficulty to Use Suggested Steps
html
None. Table is shown directly in a web page
users who are only interested in checking a few numbers.
easy
Just select "html table" as the output format and click on the "Send" button, the table will appear.
SAS
SAS. A SAS program is shown in the web page. It includes "data step" to input the data and "proc print" to display the data.
SAS users who are interested in analyzing the data..
normal
Select "SAS" as the output format and click on the "Send" button. The SAS program will appear in the web page. Cut the program and paste it to your SAS program editor. Save it as "myprogram.sas" and run the program. You can then add your own SAS procedures and analyze the data.
csv
MS Excel, SAS, and many other statistical analysis software.
users familiar with MS Excel, some statistical software and interested in the complicated analysis of the data
hard
Select "CSV" and click on the "Send" button. The comma delimited data will appear in the web page. You can copy the data and paste them to NOTEPAD. Then save the file as "mydata.csv" (keep the double quotes). After that, you can open it in MS Excel or import it to some statistics analysis packages.

Please note: to open the file in MS Excel, you need to start EXCEL first and then IN EXCEL, click on "open" and then select the .csv file you saved, then click on "OK". You should not copy and paste the data to EXCEL spreadsheet directly.
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