topic Re: Centering Text Using ODS TAGSETS.RTF in ODS and Base Reporting

Centering Text Using ODS TAGSETS.RTF

jackieme — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:42:57 GMT

I am trying to center text in ods tagsets.rtf output, but the text is still left justified even with j=c.

ods escapechar="^";

ods tagsets.rtf file="&outpath.\table1.rtf";

ods text="^S={j=c fontsize=13pt fontweight=bold}First text on page.";

ods tagsets.rtf close;

Thanks!

Re: Centering Text Using ODS TAGSETS.RTF

ballardw — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:21:52 GMT

You have to tell SAS how wide the text display area is. Add a Leftmargin= 1in and Rightmargin=1in or similar to the ODS Text. Pick your measurement as needed and you can use units of IN (inches) CM (centimeters) . There are other units but this are pretty easily understood.

Re: Centering Text Using ODS TAGSETS.RTF

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:20:37 GMT

Hi:

You need to make a STYLE template change with PDF and RTF destinations to alter the justification of the ODS TEXT strings in the output. The style element that changes the ODS TEXT value is the USERTEXT style element. Here's an example, compared to changing title:

You'll find more about changing style templates in this paper https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/033-2010.pdf and about templates in general in this paper: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings09/227-2009.pdf ..

Hope this helps,

Cynthia

Re: Centering Text Using ODS TAGSETS.RTF

jackieme — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 17:13:19 GMT

Thank you for your help and linking the reference papers. This solved my issue!