Merging ODSText Title in ODS Excel Output with backgroundcolor

[Dougall]

Hi,

I am testing ODS Excel to see if we should move our report generation from tagsets.excelxp.

Our reports generally had one Title Line with a Black background and white text.

I have been testing the ODS Excel with proc odstext to generate titles, but I have been unable to make this title merge across the report columns to fully display the text.

Using SAS9.4 1M3

I have included some sample code, does anyone know a method to merge this title across in ODS Excel?

Thank you

dm log 'clear' log;

data test;

input Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 $;

datalines;

20 25 30 Long line of text

1 8 64 Long line of text

14 32 38 Short text

15 12 12 The longest line of text of all time

;

run;

ods listing close;

ods excel file="&outPath\Test.xlsx"

            options(embedded_titles='yes'

                        Title_Footnote_nobreak='yes'

                        title_footnote_width='8'

                        sheet_name='Custom_Sheet'

                        title_footnote_nobreak='yes'

                        sheet_interval='none'

                        );

ods escapechar="^";

proc odstext;

p "This is a test, it is not a real dataset. " / style=[font_weight=bold font_size=15pt color=white backgroundcolor=black nobreakspace=yes];

run;

proc print data=test;

run;

ods excel close;

[BrunoMueller · Accepted solution]

Instead of using Proc ODSTEXT, I suggest to use a TITLE statement, this will automatically span the columns of your output. something like

title color=cxffffff bcolor=cx000000 height=15pt bold 
  "This is a test, it is not a real dataset. "
;

If you want to add multiple table and have something like a header for each table that spawns the number of columns you have in the table, you could use the tech below using Proc REPORT with the COMPUTE BEFORE _PAGE_

proc report data=sashelp.class;
  column ("Span" name age sex height weight);
  compute before _page_ / 
    style=[font_weight=bold font_size=15pt color=white backgroundcolor=black]
  ;
    xTitle = "This is a test, it is not a real dataset. ";
    len = length(xTitle);
    line xTitle $varying1024. len;
  endcomp;
run;

proc report data=sashelp.cars;
  column make model type origin invoice horsepower;
    compute before _page_ / 
    style=[font_weight=bold font_size=15pt color=white backgroundcolor=black]
  ;
    xTitle = "This is a test, it is not a real dataset. ";
    len = length(xTitle);
    line xTitle $varying1024. len;
  endcomp;
run;

[Dougall]

Awesome, that's working for me.

Thanks for the help!

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:

  The challenge with what you're trying is that PROC ODSTEXT will write your entire string in column A, that's what I expect, at least. Even though you are setting the title_footnote_width suboption, that will only impact what is specified in a TITLE or FOOTNOTE statement. So that setting will NOT even touch the ODSTEXT.

  However, using some slightly different test data:

data test;
length var4 $100;
  infile datalines dsd dlm=',';
input Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 $;
datalines;
14, 32, 38, "Short text"
15, 12, 12, "The longest line of text of all time"
20, 25, 30, "Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe."
;
run;

I was able to generate this using PROC REPORT without using ODSTEXT or a TITLE statement:

but if you WANT to use PROC PRINT and a TITLE statement instead of ODSTEXT, then what you want can be done using simpler ODS EXCEL syntax, but you need a style template to make the SystemTitle change:

I don't think PROC ODSTEXT is going to work for what you're trying to do in this instance. Perhaps try one of these other alternatives instead.

Cynthia

[Dougall]

Thanks for the help!

I tried to simplify my example, so we actually are using proc reports with compute blocks. I will play around with Title Statements and compute statements, so far those have been working.

[Cynthia_sas]

The SystemTitle style template example will work with other procedures, too. It will impact the TITLE statement which is not procedure specific. I just meant if you wanted the SystemTitle to have a black background with ODS EXCEL you need to use a STYLE template approach.

cynthia