Stata 18 Updated -

The new putpptx command lets you export graphs, regression tables, and formatted text directly into PowerPoint slides. You can even specify slide layouts and positions. For consultants and business analysts who live in PowerPoint, this is a massive time-saver.

Complementing framesets are alias variables, a deceptively simple feature with profound implications for data analysis. Alias variables allow you to access variables in other frames as if they were part of the current frame, with minimal memory consumption. This means you can reference data from an auxiliary dataset without loading it fully into the working frame or performing explicit merge operations. Stata 18

Estimates heterogeneous difference-in-differences using recent econometric frameworks (e.g., Callaway and Sant'Anna). The new putpptx command lets you export graphs,

+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Old System Defaults --> Stata 18 Theme Upgrade | +-----------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Blue-gray background grids | Clean, bright white backdrop | | Vertical text on Y-axis | Horizontal Y-axis numbering | | Muted palette selections | Vibrant, highly legible tones | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ frame(quarterly) frget profit

frame create quarterly frame quarterly: use quarterly_financials frame change master frlink m:1 firm_id quarter, frame(quarterly) frget profit, from(quarterly)

Which do you use most?

The practical applications are immediate and substantial. When conducting a regression that requires control variables stored in a separate dataset, you can simply create aliases to those variables and include them directly in your model specification. The operation requires very little memory overhead, preserving system resources for computationally intensive analyses. For large-scale projects where merging entire datasets would be prohibitive, alias variables provide an elegant solution to a common problem.