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This is reached by using the [Responses] [Add response matrix] menu item from the Entry details window for variables.

This allows you to generate a full matrix of responses by combining responses from up to 5 entries.

Each of the 5 entries is selected with a button which invokes Entry choose. You will then be asked for the range of answers to use, see Select range.  You will normally select all the responses.

For example from 4 entries with 2, 3, 3, and 4 responses respectively this will generate 72  (2 X 3 X 3 X 4) responses.  Each response will "AND" four responses together, one response from each entry.

Each generated response text will contain the text from all the combined responses put together.  You can choose to omit the outer entries response texts and use these as headers instead.

You can use the same entry more than once to get each pair of responses to a multi-coded entry.

If you are weighting data to a full table of figures (not just the rims) this can be used to make a variable with a response for each cell of the target table.

You may want to exclude any reject responses when selecting the range of responses for each entry.