Hi I would like to highlight rows in a table output using  proc tabulate but only get this error messages  "ERROR: Format references are not allowed:" This is how I programmed my test:  1. at first create format for specific colors   proc format lib=work; value temp 1=red 2=purple 3=orange 4=pink 6=yellow other=blue; run;   2. then apply this format in ODS/proc tabulate statement :   ods excel file=....; proc tabulate data=_input_data order=data S=[foreground=black]; class x / style={background=temp.}; class y/ style=<parent>; var _some_variable; table x*y,_some_variable; run; ods excel close;   x-variable contains values such as 1,2,3,4 y-variable contains classification values such as '01','02',.....'05.4.3'     3. Now I'm expecting to get x and y highlighted based on the values in x No success, only above mentioned error-message.    ... View more