topic Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters in ODS and Base Reporting

Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

ECrecelius333 — Fri, 22 May 2020 18:56:46 GMT

Hello,

My table should look like this:

But the output in Word will not print the ^ symbol. Is there a way to fix this?

Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

data_null__ — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:02:34 GMT

Probably due to ODS ESCAPECHAR='^';
Check the automatic variable AUTOMATIC SYSODSESCAPECHAR ^

Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

ballardw — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:05:52 GMT

You may have to specify a FONT using the style attributes in proc report to override the default font that your current style is using for output.

It might help to provide

1) the Proc Report code you are currently using

2)indicate which variable needs the characters

3)you may also have to provide information about what you are showing the text from if it is not a SAS data set or proc output. Like the document setting.

Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

ECrecelius333 — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:11:55 GMT

That was included in my code as:

options orientation=landscape topmargin=.25in bottommargin=.25in
leftmargin=.25in rightmargin=.25in;
ods escapechar = '^';

Am I able to remove this? When I removed it, it did not fix the problem.

Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

ECrecelius333 — Fri, 22 May 2020 19:15:25 GMT

I replaced it with ODS ESCAPECHAR='@' and it worked! Thank you!

Re: Creating a Proc Report rtf with special characters

data_null__ — Fri, 22 May 2020 20:20:42 GMT

Try changing the single ^ to two ^^ in your data. If you want to keep the escape character the same.