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    <title>topic Warning message - proc report ods rtf in ODS and Base Reporting</title>
    <link>https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Warning-message-proc-report-ods-rtf/m-p/17862#M3574</link>
    <description>Hi,&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
I am using proc report with ODS to generate the output in RTF. I am getting the following warning message when generating the output. The output is OK but not sure why I'm getting this warning message. I know this problem is coming when defining label for 'rate' and 'name' variables. When I put a label for these variables, I am not getting any warning message. It's just only when I assign label as empty. Appreicate if some one can help me with this.&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
WARNING: Use of CELLWIDTH/OUTPUTWIDTH= in a spanning header or footer will rarely yield expected results. For conventional usage, specify outputwidth only for the data column cells.&lt;BR /&gt;
WARNING: Use of CELLWIDTH/OUTPUTWIDTH= in a spanning header or footer will rarely yield expected results. For conventional usage, specify outputwidth only for the data column cells.&lt;BR /&gt;
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&lt;BR /&gt;
proc report data = final nowd split='|' spacing=1 missing&lt;BR /&gt;
    style = [outputwidth = 9 in] &lt;BR /&gt;
    style(header)=[asis = on just = center protectspecialchars = off] &lt;BR /&gt;
    style(column)=[asis = on protectspecialchars = off];&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
    column mypage index var sort rate name cnt ;&lt;BR /&gt;
    &lt;BR /&gt;
    define index / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define var / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define sort / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define mypage / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define rate / display ' ' style=[just=l cellwidth=25];&lt;BR /&gt;
    define name / display ' ' style=[just=l cellwidth=40];&lt;BR /&gt;
    define cnt / display 'Total' style=[just=l cellwidth=15] ;&lt;BR /&gt;
    &lt;BR /&gt;
    break after mypage / page;&lt;BR /&gt;
    compute before index; line '' ; endcomp;&lt;BR /&gt;
    compute after _page_; line '' ; endcomp;&lt;BR /&gt;
run ;&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
ods rtf close;&lt;BR /&gt;
ods listing;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:52:45 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>NickR</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2009-04-13T18:52:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Warning message - proc report ods rtf</title>
      <link>https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Warning-message-proc-report-ods-rtf/m-p/17862#M3574</link>
      <description>Hi,&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
I am using proc report with ODS to generate the output in RTF. I am getting the following warning message when generating the output. The output is OK but not sure why I'm getting this warning message. I know this problem is coming when defining label for 'rate' and 'name' variables. When I put a label for these variables, I am not getting any warning message. It's just only when I assign label as empty. Appreicate if some one can help me with this.&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
WARNING: Use of CELLWIDTH/OUTPUTWIDTH= in a spanning header or footer will rarely yield expected results. For conventional usage, specify outputwidth only for the data column cells.&lt;BR /&gt;
WARNING: Use of CELLWIDTH/OUTPUTWIDTH= in a spanning header or footer will rarely yield expected results. For conventional usage, specify outputwidth only for the data column cells.&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
proc report data = final nowd split='|' spacing=1 missing&lt;BR /&gt;
    style = [outputwidth = 9 in] &lt;BR /&gt;
    style(header)=[asis = on just = center protectspecialchars = off] &lt;BR /&gt;
    style(column)=[asis = on protectspecialchars = off];&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
    column mypage index var sort rate name cnt ;&lt;BR /&gt;
    &lt;BR /&gt;
    define index / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define var / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define sort / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define mypage / order order=internal noprint;&lt;BR /&gt;
    define rate / display ' ' style=[just=l cellwidth=25];&lt;BR /&gt;
    define name / display ' ' style=[just=l cellwidth=40];&lt;BR /&gt;
    define cnt / display 'Total' style=[just=l cellwidth=15] ;&lt;BR /&gt;
    &lt;BR /&gt;
    break after mypage / page;&lt;BR /&gt;
    compute before index; line '' ; endcomp;&lt;BR /&gt;
    compute after _page_; line '' ; endcomp;&lt;BR /&gt;
run ;&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
ods rtf close;&lt;BR /&gt;
ods listing;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:52:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Warning-message-proc-report-ods-rtf/m-p/17862#M3574</guid>
      <dc:creator>NickR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-13T18:52:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Warning message - proc report ods rtf</title>
      <link>https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Warning-message-proc-report-ods-rtf/m-p/17863#M3575</link>
      <description>One of my colleague helped me to fix this. No more warning messages when I changed &lt;BR /&gt;
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Style=[] statements to&lt;BR /&gt;
style(column)=[] statement.&lt;BR /&gt;
&lt;BR /&gt;
thank you.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:15:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Warning-message-proc-report-ods-rtf/m-p/17863#M3575</guid>
      <dc:creator>NickR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-04-13T19:15:36Z</dc:date>
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