Epi Info, Version 6: a word processing, database, and statistics program for public health on IBM- compatible microcomputers. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., 1996.

You can access the Enter program by clicking the Enter Data button on the Epi Info main menu. It can also be accessed from the Tools>Enter Data sub menu option. In Form Designer, you can access Enter Data by clicking the Enter Data button.

Classic Analysis can be accessed by clicking Classic from the Epi Info™ main window or by selecting Tools > Analyze Data>Classic. It reads data files created in Form Designer and other types of databases (e.g., MS Access, MS Excel, SQL Server, and ASCII).

To create a new form in a project, follow these steps:

1. Select File > New Form or right click on the project folder in the Project Explorer and select Add Form. The form dialog box opens.
2. Type a Form Name.
3. Click OK. The new form appears in the Project Explorer, and the first page appears in the canvas area.

Epi Info™ User Guide. Epi Info™ is a series of freely-distributable tools and utilities for Microsoft Windows for use by public health professionals to conduct outbreak investigations, manage databases for public health surveillance and other tasks, and general database and statistics applications.

Epi Info 7 is free of charge and can be downloaded from the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo. The Epi Info User Guide may be downloaded in PDF and Word formats from the Downloads page: 1. Introduction – Getting Started with Epi Info 2. Form Designer: Create the Data Entry Forms 3. Check Code: Customize the Data Entry Process 4.

QES files can be created with any ASCII text editor, such as Epi Info’s text editor ( EPED) or Windows NOTEPAD. However, they must always end with the file extension .QES. Instructions on using Epi Info editor EPED are found in Chapters 6, 7, and 33 of the Epi Info Manual (Dean, et al., 1994).