


One way of working is to experiment using menu commands (not saving the data) while, at the same time, building up a do-file, that can then be run at the end and re-do the whole chain of (successful and desired) commands. Otherwise, once modified and saved, there's no going back. Remember also to ensure that they maintain a copy of the original data set. It's good practice to ensure students learn to run data management and analysis using do-files - as you are teaching them. So, are you asking about how to get students to save their updated data files, or to save the do-file with which they've been working? It's the latter that's particularly important. do.dta - I don't know, as not a Mac user). What that command line will do is save the current dta file to disk, but with extension. You refer to wanting to save a do-file using the code Kristen: I am puzzled by your problem description.
