1. To adjust the style, right-click or press F2 in a cloud window and select Edit Style from the context menu. The Cloud Style dialog opens. By default it will show the Plot aspect. This will look slightly different if you have created your cloud from a cross-tab.

2. Click the Font button to change the font used in your word cloud.
3. Select Solid and then a background color if you wish your word cloud to appear on a colored background. The font and background are previewed at the bottom right of the dialog.
4. Change the Angles to switch the words in your cloud from being written horizontally to vertically.
5. Change Randomness to change the way that words are laid out in the word cloud. A high value will give slightly rounder look.

Changing color size and opacity of the words in your cloud

The colors in your word cloud will vary between the colors selected in the palette.

• Change the value in Palette to change the number of different ranges used in your word cloud. The colors used for words in the cloud graduate between the colors in the palette. If you want the colours to be distinct, you will need to add a color for each code (or the number in the Limit codes field in your definition)
• The colors in the palette are listed (Palette1 to Palette6 in the dialog above). You can view and change a color in the palette by selecting it. Its current value can be seen and changed in the Colour list. (Custom in the dialog above).

The preview of the words in your cloud are shown on the right of the dialog.

• Change the Size percentage to change the range of sizes in your word cloud. The size range is shown as the change in height of the colour area in the preview.
• Change the Opacity percentage to change the range of transparency in your word cloud. The opacity range is shown from left to right in the preview.

Change other aspects of the cloud

You can add a title to your cloud by selecting Title in the Aspect list.

You can add a backdrop to your cloud by selecting Backdrop in the Aspect list.

The Legend aspect only applies to cross-tabulation clouds.

Word cloud styles

You can load an existing style by

• selecting its name in the Style field of the Analysis Definition dialog when you define your cloud.
• right-clicking or pressing F2 in the Analysis Display window with a cloud and select Load Style from the context menu.

You can browse for any cloud style file (.wcsf file). Styles provided with Snap are stored in the Styles sub-directory from the main Snap program folder.

Editing word cloud styles

Edit the way the cloud looks by using the Cloud Style dialog.

Saving word cloud styles

If you have altered the appearance of a cloud and want to store this new design for future use, press F2 or right-click and select the Save Style option.

The file name of the style used to create the original word cloud is used as the default in the Save Style As dialog box.

Change the name in the File Name field, leaving the .wcsf extension. Click OK to save the style.

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1. Click to show the list of analysis variables. The dialog below shows the automatically created analysis variables starting AV.Q9. The AV part of the name tells you it is an auto category variable. The next part is the name of the variable that it comes from, and the last part makes the variable unique.

2. Select the variable you wish to edit and click on the toolbar to make a copy of it.
3. Double-click the new variable. The Auto Category Variable Details window opens. By default the codes are displayed in order.
4. Change the name as required.
5. Select Choose codes to display all possible codes. Categories that are not displayed in the word cloud appear with the category number in brackets. They are sorted by number of items.

6. To stop a word being used in the word cloud, clear the Include box. Items that are not included are sent to the bottom of the list.
7. You can sort the list by Label or number of items. Click on the appropriate column label to change the way the list is sorted.
8. Click to save your new variable.

Editing your analysis

You now need to edit your analysis to use your new variable.

1. Open the Analysis definition for your word cloud.
2. Change the variable used in the Analysis field to your new auto category variable.

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1. Select the word cloud in the list of analyses.
2. Click on the Analyses window toolbar to see what the sources are, that is what items the analysis uses.

3. The Sources/Dependents window opens. The associated system variable will be listed as a source.

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The stop word list consists of a text file consisting of all the words you want to exclude. Default stop word files are supplied for multiple languages.

Note that if you are using a networked copy, the default stop word list will be on the server.

Adding words to the default stop word list

1. Select Tailor|Languages to open the Languages dialog. Select the language.
2. Click the Stop Words… button to open the Stop Words dialog for the selected language.

3. Type any words you wish to exclude in the Stop words field, separated by spaces.
4. Click OK to save your changes.

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1. Click on the Snap XMP Desktop toolbar to create a cloud.
2. Enter the variable definition in the Analysis field.
3. Enter the variable used to break down the analysis in the Break field.
4. Select the Auto Coding tab.
5. Select Words or Values in the appropriate drop-down list(s) for the variables you are using. This will create categories based on the individual values in all the responses.
6. Select the maximum number of values you would like in the cloud by changing the value in Limit codes.
7. Press Apply to display the cloud.
8. The cloud will select its number of colors according to the number of codes in the Break variable.

Add a legend to your word cloud

1. Open the Cloud Style dialog for your word cloud by
   • Right-click or press F2 and select Edit Style from the context menu
   • Click in the word cloud toolbar.
2. Select Legend in the Aspect list.
3. Select Visible.

4. Select the position of your legend using the Location radio buttons.

If you wish, you can change the font, font color and space around the legend. The legend is previewed at the bottom right of the dialog.

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1. Click on the Snap XMP Desktop toolbar to create a cloud.
2. Enter the variable definition in the Analysis field.
3. Select the Auto Coding tab.
4. Select Values in the appropriate (Date, Time or Quantity) drop-down list if not selected. This will create categories based on the individual values in all the responses to that question.
5. Select the maximum number of values you would like in the cloud by changing the value in Limit codes.
6. Press Apply to display the cloud.

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1. Click on the Snap XMP Desktop toolbar to create a cloud.
2. Enter the literal variable definition in the Analysis field.
3. Select the Auto Coding tab.

4. Select Words in the Literal drop-down list if not selected. This will create categories based on all the words in all the responses to that question.
5. Select Stop default words. This stops Snap using words like “and” and “the” as categories.
6. Select the maximum number of words you would like in the cloud by changing the value in Limit codes.
7. Press Apply to display the cloud.

Setting up which words are shown in the cloud

Because the words are collected from all responses, there may be some that are not helpful to have in your cloud. You can choose which words are shown in your cloud. You can do this in two ways:

1. Add the words to the default Stop Words list. This means that the words will not be visible in any word clouds created automatically
2. Adjust which words are displayed for an individual cloud. The best way to do this is to duplicate the automatically-created variable and then edit it to hide unwanted words. You can then use the new variable in analyses.

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Word clouds allow you to display responses at different sizes, colours and opacity according to their frequency. The least frequent responses are displayed in the smallest and most transparent text.

It is possible to combine variables into a single word cloud.

You can break your word cloud down by the responses to another variable. For example, this shows food orders by gender.

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