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Alternatively, you may select a window by clicking on the Window menu item, and selecting the desired name.

You can move a window by clicking on its title bar and dragging the window to a new location. You can change the size of a window by clicking on any corner and dragging the corner to a new location.

Closing EViews

There are a number of ways to close EViews. You can always select File/Exit from the main menu, or you can press ALT-F4. Alternatively, you can click on the close box in the upper right-hand corner of the EViews window, or double click on the EViews icon in the upper left-hand corner of the window. If necessary, EViews will warn you and provide you with the opportunity to save any unsaved work.

Where to Go For Help

The EViews Manuals

This User’s Guide describes how to use EViews to carry out your research. The earlier chapters deal with basic operations, the middle chapters cover basic econometric methods, and the later chapters describe more advanced methods.

Though we have tried to be complete, it is not possible to document every aspect of EViews. There are almost always several ways to do the same thing in EViews, and we cannot describe them all. In fact, one of the strengths of the program is that you will undoubtedly discover alternative, and perhaps more efficient, ways to get your work done.

Most of the User’s Guide explains the visual approach to using EViews. It describes how you can use your mouse to perform operations in EViews. To keep the explanations simple, we do not tell you about alternative ways to get your work done. For example, we will not remind you about the ALTkeyboard alternatives to using the mouse.

When we get to the discussion of the substantive statistical methods available in EViews, we will provide some technical information about the methods, and references to econometrics textbooks and other sources for additional information.

The Help System

Almost all of the EViews documentation may be viewed from within EViews by using the help system. To access the EViews help system, simply go to the main menu and select

Help.

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Since EViews uses standard Windows Help, the on-line manual is fully searchable and hypertext linked. You can set bookmarks to frequently accessed pages, and annotate the on-line documentation with your own notes.

In addition, the Help system will contain updates to the documentation that were made after the manuals went to press.

The World Wide Web

To supplement the information provided in the manuals and the help system, we have set up information areas on the Web that you may access using your favorite browser. You can find answers to common questions about installing, using, and getting the most out of EViews.

Another popular area is our Download Section, which contains on-line updates to EViews 5, sample data and programs, and much more. Your purchase of EViews provides you with much more than the enclosed program and printed documentation. As we make minor changes and revisions to the current version of EViews, we will post them on our web site for you to download. As a valued QMS customer, you are free to download updates to the current version as often as you wish.

So set a bookmark to our site and visit often; the address is:

http://www.eviews.com.