TITLES Subcommand: Titles, Captions, and Corner Text (CTABLES command)

The TITLES subcommand specifies table annotations. If the subcommand is used, a title, caption, or corner text must be specified. No caption, title, or corner text is displayed by default.

 /TITLES  CAPTION= ['text' 'text'...]
          CORNER=  ['text' 'text'...]
          TITLE=   ['text' 'text'...]

CAPTION. Caption lines. The caption appears below the table. Multiple lines can be specified. Each line must be quoted.

CORNER. Corner text. Corner text appears in the corner cell of the table, above row titles and next to column titles. Multiple lines can be specified. Each line must be quoted. Pivot tables show all corner text that fits in the corner cell. The specified text is ignored if the table has no corner cell. The system default TableLook uses the corner area for display of row dimension labels. To display CTABLES corner text, the Row Dimension Labels setting in Table Properties should be set to Nested. This choice can be preset in the default TableLook.

TITLE. Title text. The title appears above the table. Multiple lines can be specified. Each line must be quoted.

The following symbols can be used within any caption, corner text, or title line. Each symbol must be specified by using an opening right parenthesis and all uppercase letters.

)DATE . Current date. Displays a locale-appropriate date stamp that includes the year, month, and day.

)TIME. Current time. Displays a locale-appropriate time stamp.

)TABLE. Table description. Inserts a description of the table, which consists of the table expression stripped of measurement levels, statistics specifications, and /TABLE. If variable labels are available, they are used instead of variable names in the table expression.

Example

CTABLES /VLABELS VARIABLES=SEX HAPMAR DISPLAY=NONE
  /TABLE SEX > HAPMAR BY CHILDCAT [COLPCT] 
  /SLABELS VISIBLE=NO
  /TITLE TITLE = 'Marital Happiness for Men and Women '+ 
              'by Number of Children'
         CAPTION= 'Report created at )TIME on )DATE' ')TABLE'.
Figure 1. Table with custom title and without variable labels
Table with custom title and without variable labels
  • The VLABELS subcommand suppresses the display of variable labels for SEX and HAPMAR.
  • The SLABELS subcommand suppresses the default label for the summary function.
  • The TITLE specification on the TITLE subcommand uses the standard IBM® SPSS® Statistics convention to break a single string across input lines.
  • The CAPTION specification uses the )DATE, )TIME, and )TABLE keywords to print the date, time, and a description of the table structure.