OK, thanks! That's a nice workaround. It leaves the region border alone, and indents the "marginleft" just enough so the text starts just to the right of the border line itself.   I usually don't want to bother with PROC TEMPLATE, because I don't write that syntax very often, so I'd have to look up an example, and determine which style I need to change, and what attributes I can change, etc. I had not heard of the class "usertext" before. ... View more

I found an alternate solution -- I decided to center each of the ODS TEXT lines in this region (by adding just=c to each text's style). That moves the beginning of each text line sufficiently right of the left-side border, so the text doesn't "overwrite" the left border line, like this: ods text = "^S={font_face=Tahoma fontSize=6pt color=black just=c}NOTE: Overall ... ";   I'd still be curious how to left-justify text, but not break, or overwrite, the left border. ... View more

Cynthia,   Thanks for the response. I didn't include the entire code because I didn't think it was relevant, and the background is shaded gray because while I'm writing the SAS code the first time, I find it helpful to set a background color other than white to help verify that I have correctly assigned the dimensions to each region. Then I remove the background color.   Here's the rest of the ODS PDF code, leaving out other regions on the page that work OK ... options orientation=portrait papersize=letter topmargin=0.001in bottommargin=0.001in leftmargin=0.25in rightmargin=0.25in; ods pdf file='H:\test.pdf' notoc style=HTMLBlue startpage=no; ods escapechar='^'; **************************************** P A G E O N E *************************************************************************; ods layout start x=0in y=0in /*style={background=lightgray}*/; ..... lots of region statements with PROC REPORT statements here; ods region x=0in y=9in width=8in height=0.75in style={borderwidth=1pt bordercolor=black}; ods text = " "; * So top border is not overwritten by text; ods text = "^S={marginleft=8pt}NOTE: Overall totals ...."; ods text = " "; ods text = "^S={asis=on} *Leading causes of injury ... "; ods text = "^S={asis=on} morbidity. See Appendices ..."; ods layout end; ods pdf close; ... View more

Chris,    I finally tried your code -- and it didn't work for me! I see the same results I'm getting in my code -- your first page is OK, but 2nd page prints in PowerPoint with duplicate titles -- one set of titles across the top, and another set of titles within the chart itself, like this:   My Title1 My Title2   My Title1 My Title2   Can you tell me which version of SAS you are running? I am running base SAS on Windows 9.4 1M5   Bruce ... View more

Option for removing the blank row between the title and the data in Excel: * Use the ODS TEXT= statement instead of the TITLE statement.   ... View more

Well, there is a SAS Usage note saying that the CONTENTS option on the ODS PDF statement is not compatible with SAS/GRAPH or ODS Graphics output. So I guess you will have to find a workaround -- http://support.sas.com/kb/24/317.html ... View more

Thanks, Patrick!  I should have searched the SAS Usage Notes first, before posting here. Yes, I am using the "SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB" driver to access SQL Server data from SAS code.   After reading the link you provided, it sounds like that should fix my problem. I'll try it out next week, when everyone is back in the office after Thanksgiving break.   UPDATE: It worked! Based on a similar Usage Note for SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB  - http://support.sas.com/kb/39/188.html -- we just changed our PROVIDER= parameter to Provider=SQLNCLI10.1 in our LIBNAME xxx OLEDB ...; statement, and the date fields are now downloading correctly from SQL Server 2008 into SAS numeric date variables. ... View more

I don't feel as though I have enough information to answer your question completely. Have you tried adding an ODS STARTPAGE=NOW; statement between your charts? ... View more