The commands frequencies and descriptives I tend to write myself in my syntax file, but I will often use the menus for crosstabs, explore and correlations, depending on what options I want to use.  Regardless of whether I use syntax or menus, I ALWAYS paste the code into my syntax file so that I have a record of what I have done!!

See the following for an example of the frequencies (you can shorten this to freq) and descriptives syntax:

                freq smokestat.  

Here’s the output:

descriptives age.             [total count (n), min, max, mean & SD for age]

Here’s the output: