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{cmd:help wfdo_help}: Asking for help debugging do-files
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{title:Before you ask for help, try these things}
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{p2col:{bf:Step 1}:}Try all of the suggestions for debugging do-files
discused here: {helpb wfdo_debug}.{p_end}

{p2col:{bf:Step 2}:}Read the manual for the commands related to your error.{p_end}

{p2col:{bf:Step 3}:}Make sure that your copy of Stata and user written
programs are up to date (see {helpb update} and {helpb adoupdate}).{p_end}

{p2col:{bf:Step 4}:}Write a brief description of the problem and what
you have done to resolve it.{p_end}

{p2col:{bf:Step 5}:}Create a do-file that generates the error
using a small dataset. Do not send a huge dataset as an attachment. 
Make the do-file self-contained (e.g., it loads the dataset) and transportable 
(e.g., it does not hard code the data directory).{p_end}

{p2col:{bf:Step 6}:}Send the do-file, the log file in text format, and
the dataset along the description of what you have done to
the person you are asking for help.{p_end}
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{title:Also see}

    {helpb wfdo:WF-do-files}; {helpb wf:Workflow}
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