topic Re: Justification issues using PROC ODSTEXT in SAS Programming

Justification issues using PROC ODSTEXT

chjones — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 22:44:47 GMT

Greetings All!

I am creating an executive report and need the appearance to follow a specific scheme as it is the first page of a report. The desired output has the appearance below (notice the gray is centered on the page, but the test is justified left):

Currently I have this, which has the gray box left justified:

The code at the moment is this, and the third p statement runs on but is displayed in the above output:

I have tried lots of different options including textalign, padding, etc. I am not able to get the desired output.

Any suggestions?

Re: Justification issues using PROC ODSTEXT

ballardw — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 23:19:21 GMT

Please post code as text in a code box. You can copy from the editor and then open either code box with the "running man" or a plain text box with the </> icons that appear above the message window. With text we can make edits a lot easier.

Proc ODSTEXT should be recognizing your SAS System option for Center/Nocenter.

I would try adding a line like this before your Proc:

options center;

to reset other output to left align:

options nocenter;

The options affect the entire output. Things like textalign, justification or padding only affect items in cells.

Re: Justification issues using PROC ODSTEXT

chjones — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 04:17:39 GMT

Sorry about the code, here is a text version for you:

ODS RTF file = "temp.rtf";

OPTIONS center;

PROC ODSTEXT PAGEBREAK = NO ;
p 'Executive Report' / style = {font_weight = bold FONT_SIZE=18pt FONT_FACE=Arial background = CXE8E8E8 COLOR = cx006298 width = 7in };
p ' ' /style = {FONT_SIZE=11pt JUST=L FONT_FACE=Arial background = CXE8E8E8 COLOR = cx006298 width = 7in};
p 'Some important text will be input in this one p statement, which will ultimately wrap across multiple lines. I would like the indent to maintain a constant size giving a solid gray box background appearance.' / style = {font_weight = bold FONT_SIZE=18pt FONT_FACE=Arial background = CXE8E8E8 COLOR = cx006298 width = 7in };
RUN;

ODS RTF CLOSE;

The options center is not giving me the desired output. I appreciate the suggestion and let me know if anything is wrong with the code above.

Thanks again!