ODS RTF REPORT: put a table in the header

[Kevin_Viel]

The header of the document that I am trying to create has a table in the header.  I will leave the complicating issue that it has varying number of columns per row.  Is creating a header in an RTF file created by ODS that is a table possible?  I have created headers using the TITLE statements.

My next best guess is compute page numbers and use a COMPUTE BLOCK before page, but it is already complex.

Thank you,

Kevin

[ballardw]

I it will help us help you if you provide an example of the "table" that must go in the header.

Note that there are things like the LASTPAGE inline function to insert page numbers, look in the documentation under Escapechar for examples using Title or Footnote statements to place page numbers.

[Kevin_Viel]

Thank you for your response.

The table is rather generic, except for the first row being two, not three columns.  I think that I can deal with this, if I can somehow make this table the header or the first element of a page.  With the exception of the page numbering, it is static so I could just make an image and use the style element in the TITLE statement worse comes to worse.

Image	This cell is merged with the one on its left.	This row is twice as high as the others.
Text	Text	Text
Text	Text	Page x of y

Thank you,

Kevin

[ballardw]

Here is one approach to a process.

Make a document with just the information you want using your word processor. It may help to start by making an empty file as RTF. Open, make the header, SAVE AS RTF.

Now the truly ugly part. Open the RTF document in a text editor that will treat it as text. Almost certainly you will have a lot of garbage Style information. Skip past that.

Find the text you put in the header. You will be looking for a bunch of RTF tags, and which ones I can't say at the moment.

You should be able to use the SAS ODS TEXT with the RAW to send explicit copies of that text to another ODS RTF document to see if the result is as desired.

Or do an internet search for RTF document specification and try to write the bit from scratch. You may need this just to sort out the tags in the RTF to the ones you need as the created version will likely include lots of stuff you don't need.