Thanks, Art. But it still does not spit out in the Freqs table the value and the value label. Oh well - thanks anyhow. Regarding p.s. I have always used SAS for the more powerful things that SPSS does not do (e.g. experimental design, iterative proportionate fitting (i.e. "raking") for weighting but my call for those was once every 2-3 weeks. The vast majority of my work in market research dealt with data manipulation of rather small data sets of ~1000 cases and ~200 variables and having used both SPSS and SAS extensively I am absolutely certain using SPSS click and point is faster, more transparent, and more error-free than using SAS code. Certain of it. And that coming from someone who still bemoans point and click altogether (I still dream in Lotus 123 keyboard commands - slash FC etc etc - oh the good ol days....). To me coding out data manipulation (which is 80% of stats (errr analytics) work) when one can just click and point data you're looking at (again if its smallish like my typical data sets) and get it done in maybe 70% of the time and actually be seeing the data the whole time is like being forced to drive a car through a computer/screen thrown between your and the windshield. Direct holding/melding/machinating of the data is like driving unencumbered. Coding it out is asking for trouble and making it more complicated and slower than it has to be (when you understand the power of something like SPSS click and point environment and all the powerful functionalities it has such as merging and aggregation). Then again I like to have the code for documentation - but of course SPSS saves all click and point as code so you have that too. Anyhow, sorry to ramble and rant - I really miss my SPSS....
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