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@@ -156,11 +156,38 @@ deleted from the data stream.
 Place @cmd{SELECT IF} as early in the command file as
 possible.  Cases that are deleted early can be processed more
 efficiently in time and space.
+Once cases have been deleted from the active dataset using @cmd{SELECT IF} they
+cannot be re-instated.
+If you want to be able to re-instate cases, then use @cmd{FILTER} (@pxref{FILTER})
+instead.
 
 When @cmd{SELECT IF} is specified following @cmd{TEMPORARY}
 (@pxref{TEMPORARY}), the @cmd{LAG} function may not be used
 (@pxref{LAG}).
 
+@subsection Example Select-If
+
+A shop steward is interested in the salaries of younger personnel in a firm.
+The file @file{personnel.sav} provides the salaries of all the workers and their
+dates of birth.  The syntax in @ref{select-if:ex} shows how @cmd{SELECT IF} can
+be used to limit analysis only to those persons born after December 31, 1999.
+
+@float Example, select-if:ex
+@psppsyntax {select-if.sps}
+@caption {Using @cmd{SELECT IF} to select persons born on or after a certain date.}
+@end float
+
+From @ref{select-if:res} one can see that there are 56 persons listed in the dataset,
+and 17 of them were born after December 31, 1999.
+
+@float Result, select-if:res
+@psppoutput {select-if}
+@caption {Salary descriptives before and after the @cmd{SELECT IF} transformation.}
+@end float
+
+Note that the @file{personnel.sav} file from which the data were read is unaffected.
+The transformation affects only the active file.
+
 @node SPLIT FILE
 @section SPLIT FILE
 @vindex SPLIT FILE
@@ -227,6 +254,17 @@ split.
 
 Unless @cmd{TEMPORARY} was used, after a split has been defined for
 a dataset it remains active until explicitly disabled.
+In the graphical user interface, the active split variable (if any) is
+displayed in the status bar (@pxref{split-status-bar:scr}.
+If a dataset is saved to a system file (@pxref{SAVE}) whilst a split
+is active, the split stastus is stored in the file and will be
+automatically loaded when that file is loaded.
+
+@float Screenshot, split-status-bar:scr
+@psppimage {split-status-bar}
+@caption {The status bar indicating that the data set is split using the @exvar{treatment} variable}
+@end float
+
 
 @node TEMPORARY
 @section TEMPORARY