Using SPSS to Understand Research and Data Analysis.

2.2 The First Step: Opening SPSS

There are two methods of accessing SPSS, depending on whether you have the program installed on your hard drive or need to access it from a network.

• 2.2a Opening SPSS on a PC

If SPSS is intalled on your hard drive, click Start, Programs, SPSS for Windows, SPSS for Windows (Figure 2.1).

Recall from Chapter 1 that when you open SPSS, a start up screen appears asking "What do you want to do?" In Chapter 1 we answered that we wanted to run the tutorial. We will return to how to answer this question in the present chapter, but first we want to discuss how to access SPSS on a network. So if you have just loaded SPSS from your PC, just leave the start up screen open for now.