Table without border lines when using "send to Microsoft word" in EG

[qkaiwei]

When using "send to Microsoft word" in EG, by default, tables have no border lines in word. How to solve it.

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:
Instead of using the "Send To --> Microsoft Word" choice, you might want to investigate using ODS RTF -- which creates a Rich Text format file that Word can open.

There are 2 ways to enable the creation of ODS RTF output.
1) Tools --> Options --> Results --> Results General (or a similar path) and uncheck HTML and/or SASReport as the formats for output and instead check the RTF destination. After this, all your results will be created in RTF format in a temporary location (but you can save or export them).

2) Use ODS RTF code similar to the following:
[pre]
ods _all_ close;

ods rtf file='c:\temp\myreport.rtf';

** your code;

ods rtf close;
[/pre]


And, if you are using the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, you could run your task from inside Word to have the result appear directly in Microsoft Word -- or run a stored process that returned report/analysis results directly to Word.
cynthia

[S_Burggraaff]

Yesterday I noticed that you can send border information from a SP to Word via the add-in, but that you have less control over the appearance of that border. If I run a proc report in EG that assigns red to the left border of a cell and green to the right border of the same cell, then the correct result is shown in the output window. If put that same code in a SP and run it via the add-in, the result will not have the different colors in Word. It usually shows it as a black box, even if the result format is set to HTML or RTF.

Why is that?

[qkaiwei]

Thank for your reply first. I'll keep tracking.

By the way, I don't think it's a better way that: Ok,that's not perfect enough, so try another way not perfect enough, everything is not perfect enough.

Hehe!