The FLOW= sub-option was added with SAS 9.4M4 which prevents the hard return from being added to column forcing the wrap. Therefore, you can then specify the desired width using for instance the ABSOLUTE_COLUMN_WIDTH= and this will wrap based on the width specified for the column. Specifying the FLOW='Tables'  for example will prevent the hard return from being added to any of the columns within the table.  See page 2 in the below document for more information on the option.   http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/SAS0710-2017.pdf ... View more

Use the Paragraph style element for the PROC ODSTEXT statement and the Usertext for the ODS TEXT=. Try the below and this should give you the desired results.   Proc template; Define style Style.Custom;  parent=styles.default;   class usertext /     font_size=18pt         font_weight=bold;    style paragraph from usertext; end; run; ods pdf file='c:\temp\use_bold1.pdf' style=Style.Custom ;   ods escapechar='^'; options nodate; title 'Using PROC ODSTEXT'; footnote 'The ODS Destination for PDF';   proc odstext; p 'The following word is styled; ^{style[color=purple fontweight=bold]HERE}^{newline 2}'; p 'You can ^{style[textdecoration=underline]also} format your text.' / style=[color=red]; run; ods pdf text="Only this font size is 18pt"; ods _all_ close; ... View more