topic Proc ODS text in PowerPoint in SAS Programming

Proc ODS text in PowerPoint

momi — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:55:16 GMT

Does anyone know how to add a space in ods text?

I want to do something like below in Proc ODSTEXT

hello

I tried to use the code below,,,

proc odstext;
         P "Hello";
         P "     Hello" ;
         P "           Hello";

   run;

But this would give me

Hello

Pelase let me know if you know how to do this. I want tp do this on PowerPoint.

Thanks,

Momi

Re: Proc ODS text in PowerPoint

SuzanneDorinski — Tue, 16 May 2017 00:08:19 GMT

You can use the unicode non breaking space. In the example below, I used a macro variable to insert 5 spaces in the second line, and 10 spaces in the third line.

ods escapechar='^';

%let spaces=^{unicode 00A0}^{unicode 00A0}^{unicode 00A0}^{unicode 00A0}^{unicode 00A0};

proc odstext;
  p "Hello";
  p "&spaces Hello";
  p "&spaces &spaces Hello";
run;

Louise Hadden's paper from SAS Global Forum 2010 has some other examples of unicode characters, starting on page 13 at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/215-2010.pdf.