topic Why FOOTNOTE statement number must be limited to 10? in ODS and Base Reporting

Why FOOTNOTE statement number must be limited to 10?

yasu1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:07:18 GMT

Hi there,

I want to add more than 10 footnotes to a table, but I get the following WARNING on the log:

WARNING: FOOTNOTE statement number must be between 1 and 10. The statement will be ignored.

Why doesn't SAS support adding more than 10 footnotes, and How to fix it?

Re: Why FOOTNOTE statement number must be limited to 10?

whymath — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:02:46 GMT

Does this post(https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/How-to-provide-more-than-10-Footnotes-for-Graphs/td-p/296897) sloves you problem?

Re: Why FOOTNOTE statement number must be limited to 10?

yasu1 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:45:55 GMT

Thanks, I also want to indent the long footnote when wrapping . This approach also results in indentation between multiple footnotes, so I'm still wondering why SAS imposes such a limitation?

Re: Why FOOTNOTE statement number must be limited to 10?

whymath — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:39:54 GMT

I have no idea about why it is limited to 10. If you have very looooooong footnotes, how about some other statements or options, such as: ods text, proc odstext, even postext= option if you are using proc report.