topic Customized word document report in ODS and Base Reporting

Customized word document report

DannyDsouza — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:11:41 GMT

Hi,

One of my customer wants an customized document to be created of the following format

Dear Mr. XYZ (Customer Name)
(Address)

1) This is one of the first line.
2) This is one of the second line.

I tried using an ODS Rtf and within it using ODS Text and the necessary PROC,

I need guideness in figuring two things

1) Formatting of the text appearing in the Body of the report
2) how to insert dynamic value

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards
Danny

Re: Customized word document report

sbb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:40:28 GMT

Share your code, please -- it will help you get the most effective replies. Also, provide info about your SAS environment, version, OS, local or remote SAS execution.

Also, you will find supplemental technical and conference reference documents at the SAS support http://support.sas.com/ website - either using the website SEARCH facility or consider the Google advanced search argument below:

ods rtf document formatting site:sas.com

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: Customized word document report

Cynthia_sas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:31:36 GMT

Hi:
One possibility is to use SAS and Word together. Design your mail-merge document in Word -- with the constant text and mail-merge fields for the changing information and then use SAS to create the mail-merge data. The technique is described in general, in regard to labels in this paper:
http://rtsug.org/pdf/ZillionLabels.pdf

If you are happy with the ODS TEXT method for the "body" of the document-- then there are two methods for applying style characteristics to the text that you write with ODS TEXT --
1) use ODS ESCAPECHAR techniques or
2) change the USERTEXT style element in a style template

cynthia