Hi:
The PANELS= option for PROC REPORT is a LISTING only option. It will not work for ODS PDF or ODS RTF or ODS HTML. If you look on the PROC REPORT statement documentation page, you will see that some options, such as PANEL, HEADLINE, HEADSKIP, etc, all have an asterisk (*) after them:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/61895/HTML/default/viewer.htm#/documentation/cdl/en...
with the note that the asterisk means:
* Traditional SAS monospace output only. "Traditional SAS monospace" output means the LISTING destination or output window. Since the original poster said they were interested in RTF, that eliminated the use of PANELS= from being a possibility. Specifically, in the PANELS= documentation it states that:
Restriction: This option has no effect on ODS destinations other than traditional SAS monospace output. However, the COLUMNS= option in the ODS PRINTER, ODS PDF, and ODS RTF statements produces similar results.
Other PROC REPORT options are also LISTING options, such as BOX, COLWIDTH, FORMCHAR, SPACING, PSPACE and DEFINE and BREAK statement options such as: FLOW, WIDTH, DOL, DUL, OL, UL, For more information about the fact that these LISTING-only options do not work with other ODS destinations, see this Tech Support note:
http://support.sas.com/kb/2/549.html
and this "workaround" example code for how to simulate some of the options (mostly using CSS style properties):
http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/templateFAQ/report1.html
cynthia