Quick Profiles Tutorial
- Creating a Quick Profile
- Customizing the Individual Tables and Graphs
- Learning more about a Table of Graph
- Accessing the Underlying Data for a Table or Graph
- Copying Quick Profile data into another Program
- Interpreting a Table or Graph
- Printing the Profile
Creating a Quick Profile
To create a quick profile of tables and graphs for a particular geographic area and cancer site, follow the procedures below.
- Select the data you want to display in the drop down boxes on the home page.
- Click on the Generate Profile button located under the drop down lists. The home page will be replaced with a set of tables and graphs containing the data you selected.
Customizing the Individual Tables and Graphs
Each table and graph in the Quick Profile can be modified. To modify one of the tables or graphs, follow the procedure below.
- Display the table or graph by selecting it from the list of table and graph names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Click on the Modify button located to the right of the table or graph. The table or graph will be opened in a new browser window.
- Follow the procedures for the table or graph selected. If you are not sure how to modify the table or graph displayed, click on the Tutorial link to the right of the table or graph.
Learning More about a Table or Graph
Explanations are available to help you understand the tables and graphs. To see these explanations, follow the procedure below.
- Display the table or graph by selecting it from the list of table and graph names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Click on the About this Table (or Graph) button located to the right of the table or graph. A new window will appear containing an explanation of what's on this table or graph and where the data came from.
Accessing the Underlying Data for a Graph
The data that was used to create the graphs is available. To view this data, follow the procedure below.
- Display the graph by selecting it from the list of graph names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Click on the Data Table button located to the right of the table or graph. The data table used to create the graph will appear in a new browser window.
Copying a Table or Graph into another Program
You cannot copy the entire Quick Profile at once, but you can copy a table or graph into another program such as Word or PowerPoint. To copy a table or graph into another program, use the following procedure.
For Tables
- Display the table by selecting it from the list of table names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Put your cursor near the top of the table to the left of the title.
- Hold the left mouse button down and drag the mouse to the bottom of the table. Be careful not to go too far or the entire page will be selected.
- Release the left mouse button, point to part of the highlighted area, and click with the right mouse button.
- Select Copy from the pop-up menu.
- Open the destination program (e.g., PowerPoint, Word, Word Perfect). Select Paste from the File menu, press Ctrl-V, or right click and select Paste from the pop-up menu.
For Graphs
- Display the graph by selecting it from the list of graph names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Right mouse click on the graph.
- Select Copy from the pop-up menu.
- Open the destination program (e.g., PowerPoint, Word, Word Perfect).
- Select Paste from the File menu, press Ctrl-V, or right click and select Paste from the pop-up menu.
Interpreting a Table or Graph
A text description has been provided to assist in understanding each table or graph. To view this explanation, follow the procedure below.
- Display the table or graph by selecting it from the list of table and graph names located near the top of the Quick Profiles page.
- Click on the Interpret link located to the right of the table or graph. The text description will appear in a new browser window.
Note:Some of the table may still be split across pages, depending on the size of the table.
Printing the Profile
If you select Print within your browser or press the print button, the printed result will be just the table, graph or map without the selection controls on the page.