Hi, My suggestion is that the original poster (p9jain) work with Tech Support. When I run either your code or the OP code in SAS 9.4, I correctly see the \ in the output. While it is true that the \ generally has special meaning to RTF, such as when using RTF control strings directly in the output, my suspicion is something having to do with fonts in the OP version of Microsoft Word instead of something with SAS. When I run either code, as I said, using SAS 9.4 and Word 2013, I do see the back slash in the output. See the attached screen shots. My font, as set by the STYLE template for RTF (styles.rtf) is using Times New Roman. It's better to compare apples to apples. If the OP wants RTF, then comparing to PDF or creating output to PDF is not a fair test. PDF might have different default fonts than RTF. If the OP wants RTF, then the RTF examples should be the ones compared. cynthia
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