Using sortvar() option in -outreg2- with factor variables

[Andrew Tai]

Hi all,

I'm using -outreg2- to output the results of multiple equations with factor variables. For example, running the following two in order:

reg y x1 ib0.x2 i.Year , vce(robust) fvlabel
outreg2 using `filename', dec(3) ///
append label excel ///
sortvar( Year )

reg y x1 ib0.x2 ib1.x3 i.Year , vce(robust) fvlabel
outreg2 using `filename', dec(3) ///
append label excel ///
sortvar( Year )

This fails to order the Year variable at the top. Replacing this with i.Year fails as well. Any advice?