@Cynthia: Thank you very much for all the examples!!! I got another idea when I was trying your examples - you can use the compute statement to get the lines without having another row. So I just had to add the following code to my proc report statement: compute after section; if section ne . then call define (_row_, 'style', 'style=[bordertopwidth=2pt]'); endcomp; So, I got pointed in another direction because of your examples, thanks a lot! Sabrina ... View more

Hi, here an example SAS code: ods escapechar='^'; data lines; input section column1$ column2$ column3$ column4$ column5$; cards; 1 A B C D E 1 A B C D E 1 A B C D E 2 B C D E F 2 B C D E F 3 C D E F G 3 C D E F G ; run; *add RTF code words to data set; data lines; length column1-column5 $100.; set lines; by section; if first.section then do; column1 = "^{style [bordertopwidth=2pt]}"||column1; column2 = "^{style [bordertopwidth=2pt]}"||column2; column3 = "^{style [bordertopwidth=2pt]}"||column3; column4 = "^{style [bordertopwidth=2pt]}"||column4; column5 = "^{style [bordertopwidth=2pt]}"||column5; end; run; proc template; define style MYSTYLE; class Table / frame = box rules = none borderbottomwidth=2pt bordertopwidth=2pt borderrightwidth=2pt borderleftwidth=2pt ; end; run; ods listing close; ods rtf file = "C:/example_lines.rtf" style=MYSTYLE; proc report data=lines NOWINDOWS BOX STYLE(header)=[borderrightwidth=2pt background=white]; column section column1 column2 column3 column4 column5; define section / order order=data noprint; define column1 / style(column)=[borderrightwidth=2pt]                          style(header)=[borderrightwidth=2pt borderbottomwidth=2pt]; define column2 / style(column)=[borderrightwidth=1pt]                          style(header)=[borderrightwidth=1pt borderbottomwidth=2pt]; define column3 / style(column)=[borderrightwidth=2pt]                          style(header)=[borderrightwidth=2pt borderbottomwidth=2pt]; define column4 / style(column)=[borderrightwidth=1pt]                          style(header)=[borderrightwidth=1pt borderbottomwidth=2pt]; define column5 / style(column)=[borderrightwidth=2pt]                          style(header)=[borderrightwidth=2pt borderbottomwidth=2pt]; ; quit; ods rtf close; >> If someone has an idea - how to avoid/delete the leading blanks or better, if someone has a better idea than writing RTF code words in SAS >> datasets, please let me know! Thanks. ... View more