Options can be divided into two categories: output options and data options. The former determine the format of each table in the run, but have nothing to do with the numbers in each cell, whereas the latter determine how the cell counts are to be created but have nothing to do with the overall appearance of the tables.

Jobs in which only the output options have been changed can be rerun without rereading the data, but jobs in which data options have been altered must be rerun just as if they were new jobs. For more information on running Quantum, see Running Quantum on UNIX and Microsoft Windows.