I don't really know of an easy way to make the device=png output look like the device=activex. You can control many visual qualities of the graphs using the ods styles (such as htmlblue, sasweb, etc). But things like the "quantity of axis labels" can only be controlled via the axis statement, and size of plot markers can only be controlled via the symbol statement. ... View more

You want a PUT statement, you can use a PUT statement.... data _null_ ;    file print ;   put "Thank you for trying, but please try again." ; run; If you stored process is writing to _webout or whatever, that should write the message to the output. In practice, I seem to switch randomly between ODS text=, data _null_ like above, and your mentioned approach of proc reporting a 1-variable 1-record dataset. ... View more