Unable to use etable command on stata 17

[Joao Macosso]

I am attempting to use etable command documented here --> https://www.stata.com/manuals/retable.pdf but I keep getting error ```command etable is unrecognized```, I have tried to install it using ```ssc install etable``` still not successful.
I want to use the command to create summary table for xtdpsys output, I usually use outreg2 to create summary output but I just wanted to try the etable command as well.

[Clyde Schechter]

Well, the old standards for this kind of situation may apply:

1. Make sure your Stata installation is completely up to date: latest versions of executable and ado-files, plugins, etc.
2. Do a cold re-boot and try again.
3. Uninstall Stata and re-install it. Try again.
4. If all of the above fail, contact StataCorp technical support for help.

BUT, before you do any of that, think back to where this code came from. If it was copy/pasted into Stata from a source that is anything other than another do-file known to work, or a plain text file, then you may be getting tripped up by non-printing formatting characters that are contaminating the command.* That is to say that what looks to your eyes like -etable- may in fact be a longer string that includes other characters that you cannot see but Stata does. To rule out that possibility, delete the entire line containing the command, and then type in the same command by hand. Do not paste it from another source See if that solves the problem before trying the more time-consuming steps above.

*Code coming from Word documents is particularly subject to this and other problems. The same is true of PDF files, including even the official Stata documentation PDFs! And it is a frequent problem with code pasted in from websites, including this Forum.