Paper CC22 Tips and Tricks of Handling Comprehensive ODS Output with SAS ® 9

Displaying a table and related figure together on the same page is an attractive way to facilitate comparison and promote understanding. SAS ® Version 9 provides many features that are useful in this regard. In addition, we also like to control the size of graphs and tables so that the layout will fit properly. With SAS Version 9, in addition to a greater variety of formatting selections and output destinations, series of new features from ODS (Output Delivery System) have enabled us to modify and customize output files as well as to store and rearrange ODS output objects, which provide flexibility to control the presentation flow. With a practical example, this paper will illustrate a flexible and easily managed process of how to store graphs and tables in SAS catalogs, how to manipulate the size of graphic objects and arrange the presentation layouts by adapting some new features from SAS Version 9, and will combine the aforementioned items with some nifty functions from PROCs GCHART, GREPLAY, REPORT and GOPTIONS. Tricks of using #BYVAL, #BYVAR, and #BYLINE will also be demonstrated to create dynamic report titles, as well as to restrain subtitles above each group. Furthermore, exploration on how to control the position of titles and footnotes, either inside or outside an image file, will be discussed. In the end, tips about how to manage spaces between two ODS objects as well as how to select the proper output device according to the final presentation formats will be provided