How to assign a String to be used for reports in a table?

mri

I know that this is probably a basic question, but I cannot find the proper search term in the discussion.

Let's say I have a Column Sex with values M and F.

In my bar graph I want to use Gender, male and female.

There are many ways to do this, recode being an example, but is there a built in function to do this where I do not have to either change the values of the existing column or create a new column?

michael_jmp

I think Value Labels would work. To add Value Labels to the column, right click on the column heading and select Column Info. Select Value Labels in the Column Properties combo box menu. Assign labels to each value of the data in the column.

Now, when you create a bar graph, the value labels should show up instead of the actual data values in the table.

Best,

Michael