Thank you for your response.
In response to your questions:
"1) should the word "Continued" appear in the title on EVERY page after the first page? OR, should the word "Continued" appear in the title on the second page of every BY group, if there is a second page??"
The word "continued" should appear in the title on the second page of every by group (if there is second page).
"2) How should page numbers be treated ... start at 1 and continue to increment across all by groups? OR should the page numbers restart at 1 for every BY group."
Page numbers should start at 1 and continue to increment across all by groups.
The example you outlined as "Possibility 1" is what I envision.
I am not familiar with SASHELP.SHOES but here is the basic setup.
This proc report creates 1,000 pages with 250 tables, and all the pages are numbered at the bottom of the page as follows: 1 of 1,000; 2 of 1,000; 3 of 1,000, …; 1,000 of 1,000. (which is what I want)
proc report;
by atype psgd stt agec tnum;
format atype $atype. psgd psgd. stt stt. agec agec.;
……
title1 "Table #BYVAL(tnum)";
title2 "#BYVAL(atype), #BYVAL(psgd)", #BYVAL(stt), BYVAL(agec)";
run;
The TNUM (table number) variable increments when any of the other #bval variables changes and a new table is created with a unique set of titles. (TNUM goes from 1 to 250).
I want "continued" to appear when there are multiple pages within TNUM. So, I would like the first title of the first 3 tables spanning the first 5 pages of the report to be (using your possibility #1):
Table 1
Table 1, continued
Table 2
Table 3
Table 3, continued
(the page numbering shown at the bottom of each page should continue to be: 1 of 1,000; 2 of 1,000; 3 of 1,000; 4 of 1,000; 5 of 1,000)