Presentation-Quality Tabular Output via ODS

Abstract

This paper describes how to achieve presentation-quality tabular output using PROC REPORT, ODS Styles, and the ODS Printer destination for PS and PDF output. Covered are tricks for control of cell width and cell height, borders and shading, splitting and stacking cell values, and all those gnarly tricks you have to know to have (mostly) complete control over the look and feel of your tables. The techniques described can also be applied to PROC TABULATE and other SASâ output as well. But hey, let's face it, REPORT is cool so why would you want to use anything else? I will also cover indenting and other secret formatting abilities of the ODS PRINTER code, and show a preview of coming 8.2 features.