Paper 306 Customize your SAS ® Output with the Template Procedure: A Beginning Tutorial

The Output Delivery System (ODS), introduced in version 7 of the SAS ® System, offers many options for formatting SAS output. Default templates can be replaced with custom templates created using the Template Procedure. Output from entire SAS jobs can be modified with style-definitions and single output objects can be formatted with user created table-definitions. This beginning tutorial will provide several basic PROC TEMPLATE examples. It will cover where templates are stored, how they are accessed, and how they are created. It will cover the concepts of inheritance. PROC TEMPLATE has more options than are reasonable to cover in a beginning tutorial. However, the basic concepts will be demonstrated and references to the most current sources of documentation and examples will be mentioned. This paper assumes the reader has a basic understanding of ODS. The basics are thoroughl