User’s Guide : EViews Fundamentals : Workfile Basics
  
Workfile Basics
Managing the variety of tasks associated with your work can be a complex and time-consuming process. Fortunately, EViews’ innovative design takes much of the effort out of organizing your work, allowing you to concentrate on the substance of your project. EViews provides sophisticated features that allow you to work with various types of data in an intuitive and convenient fashion.
Before describing these features, we begin by outlining the basic concepts underlying the EViews approach to working with datasets using workfiles, and describing simple methods to get you started on creating and working with workfiles in EViews.