topic Re: Output log in Word format in SAS Programming

Output log in Word format

Batman — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:41:04 GMT

Can I output the log in Word format as part of the program? I know PRINTTO does ASCII text as a default, but can it be used to produce output in other formats?

Re: Output log in Word format

PaigeMiller — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:43:12 GMT

You can save the log as an RTF file, which will then open in Word. I fail to see the benefit or point of doing this, however.

Re: Output log in Word format

SASKiwi — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:00:34 GMT

SAS logs are just text files without any document-style formatting like different fonts, font sizes and so on, so I don't see any advantage at all in using Word format.

Re: Output log in Word format

Batman — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:04:37 GMT

If I'm having someone else review the log, it's easier to make comments, etc in Word.

Re: Output log in Word format

Reeza — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:15:38 GMT

SAS does offer Jupyter Notebooks option to code in as well, in case that's something of interest.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2016/04/24/how-to-run-sas-programs-in-jupyter-notebook/

And this feature directly in SAS Studio:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Studio/Getting-the-SAS-program-Code-results-and-output-in-one-file/td-p/855789

Re: Output log in Word format

PaigeMiller — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:19:51 GMT

@Batman wrote:
If I'm having someone else review the log, it's easier to make comments, etc in Word.

I disagree. They can make comments just as easily in a text editor rather than a word processor.

Re: Output log in Word format

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:31:17 GMT

Word can easily open any plain text file. Just save the log with a .txt extension to make it easier for Word to recognize it.