Formats

[wajmsu]

Hi,

Do we have to use proc format statement everytime? If I do not use the statement but I have value labels with me (out of the dataset) and I can work while I put vlaues in MSword tables, is that ok?

Thanks

[rayIII]

You only need to create the formats once. You can save formats to a catalog and reference them later. 

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings12/048-2012.pdf

You can write SAS code to generate formats using the values / labels in a dataset. But normally it's faster to copy the labels from Word and paste them into your proc format code. 

Hope this helps.

Ray