topic PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem in ODS and Base Reporting

PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem

garret — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:49:46 GMT

When I run PROC MEANS and send the output to PDF, the default is a column for variable label that is narrow and often wraps to two lines to fit the whole thing. That would be OK, but none of the other columns skip a line to keep up with the label. So after any label wraps, the associated statistics (the ones you'd normally read left to right across a row) are actually from other variables--nothing lines up. How can I get the other columns to automatically stay aligned with the intended variable?

Like this:

var1 this is a long label that continues 123.5

var2 on the next line 238.4

var3 this is actually var2's label 437.2

var4 this is actually var3's label 123.9

Re: PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem

Reeza — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:53:38 GMT

Change the page orientation to be landscape instead of portrait?

Re: PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem

ballardw — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:29:27 GMT

Or send the output to a data set and use Proc Print where you have more display controls than Proc Means.

Re: PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem

garret — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:39:35 GMT

Any details on how one might do that?

Re: PROC MEANS PDF with long variable labels alignment/pagination problem

Reeza — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:09:26 GMT

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2015/07/17/customizing-output-from-proc-means/