Posts Tagged ‘mac’

Saving Word file to image in 2 simple steps

26/01/2015 by Pieter Kubben | Filed in Neurosurgery | No comments

I work on Mac OS X and sometimes for a scientific article I need to convert an MS Word document (mostly a flowchart) to a figure for a publication. For example, take this flowchart from the PRISMA statement (an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses). Obviously you can take…Continue Reading…

Dot notation as decimal separator in Excel and SPSS on Mac OS X

20/04/2012 by Pieter Kubben | Filed in Neurosurgery | 18 comments

This issue might causing more people troubles than just me, so I thought to post it on my blog. For a scientific articles I needed to create some graphs, both from SPSS (a Kaplan-Meier curve) and Excel (the other graphs). As a default setting, my computer uses the comma as the decimal separator. For these…Continue Reading…