<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>FAQ/emailSpo</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>16</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:18:01</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>15</revnumber><date>2008-10-24 10:23:27</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>14</revnumber><date>2008-04-04 14:19:11</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2008-04-04 14:17:31</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2007-11-14 10:33:50</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2007-11-14 10:31:40</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2007-11-14 10:28:27</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2007-11-13 14:52:50</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2007-11-13 14:52:22</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2007-07-26 11:22:50</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2007-07-26 11:22:36</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2007-07-26 09:40:58</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2007-07-26 09:40:40</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2007-07-26 09:40:19</date><authorinitials>IanNimmoSmith</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2007-04-27 09:06:27</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2007-04-27 09:05:50</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>How do I e-mail a SPSS output file?</title><para>There are backward compatibility difficulties in e-mailing SPSS output of form <emphasis role="strong">.spo </emphasis> as attachments. An earlier version of SPSS may not recognize an output file produced by using a later version and vice-versa. </para><para>One way around this is to go to <emphasis role="strong">file &gt; export</emphasis> and choose <emphasis role="strong">output document</emphasis> in the export window and <emphasis role="strong">html</emphasis> in the file type window thus saving the output document in the <emphasis>later version</emphasis> as a html file. </para><para>Now open a new word document and read in the html file. You can then save this document as a word document and send this word document in the e-mail attachment. </para><para>From version 11.5 you can use file&gt;export to place SPSS output files directly into MS Word. Warning: these can be big files! </para><para>An alternative is to turn the output into a <emphasis role="strong">pdf</emphasis> file. You can do this be sending the output to a Postscript printer, selecting the <emphasis role="strong">output to file</emphasis> option in the printer window. Give the output file a name ending in <emphasis role="strong">.ps</emphasis> (you may have to do this manually afterwards). Then open the Postscript file in <emphasis role="strong">gsview</emphasis> and <emphasis role="strong">export</emphasis> to a pdf. </para><para>You can also download pdf software which will print directly to a pdf file. See <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/FAQ/emailSpo/statswiki/FAQ/pdfs#">here.</ulink> </para><para>From version 13 of SPSS you can additionally  save a SPSS output file directly into a powerpoint file and from version 15 directly into a pdf file. </para></section></article>